According to local officials, children and employees were present in the kindergarten when the helicopter crash took place.
Ukrainian Interior Minister Denys Monastyrsky is among at least 18 people who died on Wednesday in a helicopter crash near a kindergarten in the Kyiv region.
Monastyrsky and other ministry officials, including his deputy minister Yevheniy Yenin and the state secretary, were on board the emergency civil service helicopter when it crashed in Brovary, a city near Kyiv, said the head of the NationalMilitary stand at the site where a helicopter crashed near a kindergarten outside the capital Kyiv, killing 18 people, including two children and Ukraine's Interior Minister Denys Monastyrsky and diplomat Yevheniy Yenin .
The helicopter crashed between a residential building and a kindergarten, causing a fire. Children and employees were evacuated from the kindergarten, local authorities said.Ukraine's national police said an emergency rescue operation was underway. The cause of the crash is unclear.Read more
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