Following the crash of the Ukrainian Interior Minister’s helicopter, US President Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, “mourn with all those grieving over this heartbreaking tragedy,” the White House said Wednesday.
In a press release, the presidential couple salutes the memory of this minister, Denys Monastyrsky, “a man of reforms and a patriot”, and says that they are “in the thoughts of the dozens of civilians killed or injured” in this accident, that cost the lives of at least 14 people, including a child.
At least 14 dead in accident
Ukraine’s Interior Minister Denys Monastyrsky died Wednesday near Kyiv in a helicopter crash that killed at least 14 people, including a kindergarten boy, while traveling to the front lines in the war with Russia. .
The aircraft, an EC-225 Super Puma (Airbus Helicopters, ex-Eurocopter) according to the State Service for Emergency Situations (SES) to which it belonged, crashed on Wednesday morning in Brovary, near Kyiv.
Source: BFM TV
