Eighteen people have been killed, including Ukraine's interior affairs minister, after a helicopter crashed beside a kindergarten in an eastern suburb of the capital Kyiv.

Three children were among the dead and 15 more are being treated in hospital.

The minister, Denys Monastyrsky, was with eight others in the helicopter.

His first deputy minister and the state secretary also died, officials said, when the helicopter came down in the suburb of Brovary.

National police chief Ihor Klymenko wrote on Facebook that the helicopter belonged to Ukraine's state emergency service.

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The head of Kyiv's regional military administration, Oleksiy Kuleba, said the tragedy in Brovary had left 29 hurt as well as 18 dead.

After the crash a fire broke out close to the kindergarten and children and staff were moved from the building. Wreckage from the helicopter was visible outside a burning building.

It was dark and foggy at the time of the crash and initial reports suggest the helicopter hit the kindergarten before crashing close to a residential building.

Two other senior figures from the interior ministry were killed alongside Mr Monastyrsky. Yevhen Yenin was first deputy minister while Yurii Lubkovich was state secretary.
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Video of the crashed helicopter on fire.
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Back in June 2022, Denys Monastyrsky, Minister of Internal Affairs was wishing Putin's death...



The Ukrainian Minister of the Interior and his First Deputy were on board of that helicopter that crashed in Brovary.
Either some serious internal conflict or a really really unlikely freak accident.
And right after Arestovich and the Ukrainian governor of Donetsk oblast stepped down...

Another theory being floated is friendly fire by Ukrainian air defense.
Nobody knew what happened

I suspect a friendly fire.
He never saw his dead coming but was praying for Putin to die. Now,he's a dead meat and Putin is still gracing the earth