Ukraine's Minister of Internal Affairs was flying to hot spot

Kyrylo Tymoshenko, Deputy Head of the President’s Office, has said that the helicopter crash in Brovary, Kyiv Oblast, occurred during a flight by Interior Minister Denys Monastyrskyi to one of Ukraine’s hotspots where fighting is ongoing.

Source: Tymoshenko during a briefing in Brovary

Quote: "The purpose of the flight was business. To one of the hotspots... so to speak... that we have in our country, where the fighting is taking place. The Minister of Internal Affairs was going there".

Details: Tymoshenko will provide more information later.

Background:

• On the morning of 18 January, a helicopter crashed near a kindergarten in Brovary, Kyiv Oblast, causing a fire to break out.
• The helicopter crash in Brovary, Kyiv Oblast, has killed the top leadership of the Ukrainian Ministry of Internal Affairs: Denys Monastyrskyi, Minister of Internal Affairs, Yevhen Yenin, First Deputy Interior Minister, and Yurii Lubkovych, State Secretary of the Interior Ministry are among those killed. A total of 18 fatalities, including 3 children, have been reported.

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