Street in Kyiv may be named after late Ukrainian Interior Minister

Ukrainian Members of Parliament have collected 150 signatures on a petition to have one of the streets in Kyiv named after Denys Monastyrskyi, the deceased former Interior Minister of Ukraine.

Source: Halyna Yanchenko, a Member of Parliament from the Servant of the People faction, on Facebook

Quote from Yanchenko: "Together with my colleagues, we have collected signatures [for a petition] to rename one of the streets near the Ministry of Internal Affairs after Denys Monastyrskyi.

This petition to the Kyiv city government has been signed by 150 MPs so far.

Next week, I plan to meet with the Kyiv authorities regarding this issue."

Background: 

• On the morning of 18 January 2023, a helicopter of the State Emergency Service crashed in Brovary, Kyiv Oblast. 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, State Secretary of the Interior Ministry, were among those killed. A total of 14 fatalities, including a child, were reported. The helicopter had been handed over to Ukraine by France in August 2020.
• The Security Service of Ukraine is considering several main avenues of investigation: violation of flight safety rules (pilot error), technical malfunction, and sabotage.

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