What Happpened To Denys Monastyrskyi? How Did Denys Monastyrskyi Die?

Ukrainian Interior Minister Denys Monastyrsky was killed in a helicopter crash Wednesday in Brovary, an eastern suburb of Kyiv.

The helicopter hit a kindergarten as it crashed, and three children were among the 18 killed. Fifteen others were treated for injuries.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr  Zelenskyy expressed his condolences to the families and friends of those who died, calling Monastyrsky and the other officials aboard the helicopter true Ukrainian patriots.

Denys Monastyrskyi, the Interior Minister who oversaw Ukraine’s police and emergency services, is the highest-ranking official to have died since Russia invaded nearly 11 months ago.

His death, along with two others from his ministry, was the second disaster to strike Ukraine in four days, following a Russian missile strike on an apartment building that killed dozens of civilians.

There was no word on whether the crash, which occurred near a kindergarten, was an accident or related to the war. There has been no recent fighting in the Kyiv area.