Helicopter that crashed in Brovary was on way to Kharkiv

The helicopter that crashed in the city of Brovary, Kyiv Oblast, on the morning of 18 January, was on its way to Kharkiv.

Source: Volodymyr Tymoshko, Head of the National Police in Kharkiv Oblast, on Facebook

Quote from Tymoshko: "Today, I was supposed to greet, to shake hands with, to… I talked to everyone on board [the helicopter] yesterday and today. I talked to them and I set out to meet them. I was ready to meet them."

Background:

• On the morning of 18 January, a helicopter crashed near a kindergarten in Brovary in Kyiv Oblast, causing a fire to break out. 
• The helicopter crash 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, three of the Interior Minister's aides and security guards. The data on the number of dead has differed.
• The Security Service has launched an investigation into the causes of the helicopter crash in Brovary; the main avenues of investigation are violation of flight safety rules, technical malfunction and intentional actions. 

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