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KYIV — Three members of the Ukrainian government died in a helicopter crash on Wednesday morning near a kindergarten in Brovary, a town in the region of Kyiv, the Chief of the Ukraine’s National Police Ihor Klymenko said in a statement.
Ukrainian Interior Minister Denys Monastyrskiy, his first deputy Yevhen Yenin and the ministry’s State Secretary Yuriy Lubkovych died in the accident.
There are 17 victims in all, two of whom are children, Oleksiy Kuleba, the head of the Kyiv regional military administration, said in a statement on Telegram.
“22 victims are in hospital, including 10 children,” Klymenko wrote.
The cause of the accident is still unclear. Emergency services and investigators are on the scene.
