Tearful Zelenskiy honours top Ukrainian officials killed in helicopter crash
Kyiv, Ukraine Reuters A tearful Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy attended a memorial service on Saturday to commemorate seven senior officials killed in a helicopter crash, a fresh blow to a nation already grieving its many war dead. Interior Minister Denys Monastyrskyi, his deputy and five other high-ranking ministry officials were killed on Wednesday when their […]
‘Where are the kids?’ Ukrainian mother recounts helicopter crash horror
Brovary, Ukraine Reuters Anna Maiboroda feared the worst when a helicopter carrying Ukraine’s interior minister crashed near her daughter Vika’s nursery, setting the building ablaze with her daughter inside. The young mother ran to the burning nursery but could not see her daughter. “I started screaming ‘Where are the kids?’. I heard that the kids […]
Ukraine helicopter crash kills interior minister in Kyiv as fighting rages on in east
Updated: 8:20am, 19th January, 2022 (AEST) Brovary Ukraine Reuters Ukraine’s interior minister and a child were among at least 14 people killed on Wednesday when a helicopter crashed into a nursery and set it ablaze in a suburb of the capital Kyiv. Separately, Ukraine said its forces again blunted Russian attempts to advance on the […]