Ukraine's interior minister among 14 dead after helicopter crashes near kindergarten outside Kyiv
ABCA helicopter flying in fog has crashed into a kindergarten in Kyiv, killing Ukraine's interior minister and about a dozen other people including a child on the ground, authorities said. Key points: A helicopter crashed near a kindergarten in the town of Brovary on the outskirts of Kyiv on Wednesday Ukraine's Interior Minister Denys Monastyrsky and his deputy were among the dead, which also included three children Mr Monastyrsky is the most senior Ukrainian official to die since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022 Several bodies lay on the ground of a courtyard, their boots sticking out from under blankets, after the helicopter — described by an air force spokesperson as a French Super Puma — slammed into a building in Brovary, on the north-eastern outskirts of the capital. Russia was 'duped' and 'cheated': Putin Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that Moscow's action in Ukraine was intended to stop a "war" that has raged in eastern Ukraine for many years. "Large-scale combat operations involving heavy weapons, artillery, tanks and aircraft haven't stopped in Donbas since 2014," Mr Putin said.
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