Ukraine helicopter crash: Facts and unanswered questions
Associated PressBROVARY, Ukraine — The helicopter crash that killed Ukraine’s interior minister and about a dozen other people outside the capital, Kyiv, on Wednesday is the latest devastating development in the nearly yearlong war that began with Russia’s invasion. The crash came four days after a Russian missile struck an apartment building i n Ukraine’s southeastern city of Dnipro, killing dozens of civilians, including six children. WHAT WE KNOW — The crash killed all nine people aboard the helicopter: Interior Minister Denys Monastyrsky and four other ministry officials, including Monastyrsky’s deputy, Yevhen Yenin, and State Secretary of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Yurii Lubkovych; a national police official and the three crew members. — The tragedy may prompt Kyiv to institute a rule many countries and companies follow: that more than one top official shouldn’t fly on the same aircraft, political analyst Fesenko said.