BROVARY, Ukraine (AP) — The deadly crash of a helicopter that killed Ukraine’s interior minister and about a dozen other people outside the capital, Kyiv, on Wednesday is the latest in a series of devastating developments in the nearly yearlong war that began with Russia’s invasion.
The crash came four days after a Russian missile struck an apartment building i n Ukraine’s southeastern city of Dnipro, killing dozens of civilians, including six children. That attack was the deadliest on civilians since the spring.
Authorities continued identifying remains and warned that the death toll could rise.
WHAT WE KNOW
- The crash killed all nine people aboard the helicopter: Interior Minister Denys Monastyrsky and four other ministry officials, including Monastyrsky’s deputy, Yevhen Yenin, and State Secretary of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Yurii Lubkovych; a national police official and the three crew members.