An investigation is underway after a helicopter crashed in fog near a nursery outside Kiev yesterday, killing 14 people, including Ukraine's interior minister.
The crash caused a huge fire and one side of the nursery building was destroyed. The governor of the Kyiv region said the children and staff had been at the nursery when the plane crashed into a building in Brovary, northeast of the capital. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called the accident a "terrible tragedy" and called for a criminal investigation.
"The SBU (Security Service of Ukraine) has launched a criminal investigation into this terrible event," he said in his late-night speech.
"I instructed the head of the security service of Ukraine, in cooperation with all other authorized bodies, to clarify all the circumstances of the disaster."
He also said that Ukraine had "lost people who were professionals, patriots and reliable leaders". Interior Minister Denys Monastyrskyi, his first deputy Yevhen Yenin and the ministry's state secretary Yurii Lubkovych are among the dead.
