The crash of a helicopter near the city of Brovary, east of Kyiv, caused the death of at least 14 people on Wednesday according to the latest assessment carried out by the Ukrainian authorities. Among these victims, we mourn a child but also three high-ranking State dignitaries: the secretary of the Ministry of the Interior, the first deputy of the minister and the Minister of the Interior himself, Denys Monastyrsky. The three men were going to the sustained front against the Russian enemy.
While Volodymyr Zelensky launched an investigation to clarify the nature of this tragedy, BFMTV.com investigated the personality and political itinerary of the late Interior Minister.
A lawyer with a very complete curriculum.
Denys Monastyrsky was 42 years old. In fact, he was born in 1980 in Khmelnitski, in the west of the country. It was in this city, which had a population of 264,988 before the war, where he completed most of his studies: Denys Monastyrsky was a lawyer by training -he had even received a doctorate in law- and began to advocate in 2007 according to a portrait drawn by a Ukrainian information agency.
According to this biographical note, he practiced at the firms Hillmont Partners, Global Ties KC, Legal Consulting LLC. Parallel to this busy professional career, he was married and the father of two children, he says. le figaro.
New to politics
His entry into politics was relatively late. And at first discreet: Denys Monastyrsky took his first steps there in 2014 as a collaborator with deputy Anton Heraschenko, who will be his deputy interior minister for a few weeks after his own appointment in 2021.
In 2019, he had to be elected a deputy to the Rada, under the motto of “Servant of the people”, the largely unclassifiable movement of Volodymyr Zelensky and which also takes its name from the series that established the latter’s celebrity.
“Sacrifice”
Finally, he was propelled Minister of the Interior on July 16, 2021. Upon taking office, he spoke of his position seriously according to this statement reported at the time by the Ukrainian news agency Interfax:
“I can tell you that answering ‘yes’ to the president’s proposal to entrust me with the leadership of the Ministry of the Interior was the most difficult decision of my life.” He then said “to measure the magnitude of the sacrifice to be made”.
However, this was before the war and 18 months before his death.
Source: BFM TV
