Denys Monastyrsky, Minister of Internal Affairs; Yevhen Yenin, First Deputy Minister; and Yuriy Lubkovich, State Secretary of the Ministry were killed along with six other people when a helicopter crashed into a kindergarten in Brovary, Kyiv region.
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All nine people on board the helicopter were killed along with five bystanders at a Brovary kindergarten, while another 31 on the ground were injured.
On the morning of 18 January 2023, a helicopter crashed in Brovary, Kyiv Oblast, causing a fire to break out. The crash killed the senior leadership of the Ministry of Internal Affairs: Interior Minister Denys Monastyrskyi, his first deputy Yevhenii Yenin and State Secretary Yurii Lubkovych. In total, 14 people died, including a child.
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