Ukraine helicopter crash: Officials killed in crash were on frontline – BBC News
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- Fourteen people, including a child, are known to have died after a helicopter carrying senior officials crashed near a kindergarten in Ukraine.
- President Zelensky called it a “black morning” and said the ministers who died were patriots
- Nine people were on board the helicopter, which crashed in Brovary, east of Kyiv
- Ukrainian Interior Minister Denys Monastyrsky, the Deputy Interior Minister and a Secretary of State were among the dead.
- They were said to be heading for Kharkiv in eastern Ukraine
- Officials often fly low to avoid Russian missiles, but the cause of the crash is under investigation
- Pupils and staff were in the nursery at the time, and 25 people, including 11 children, are in hospital.