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Image The site of the helicopter crash in Brovary, Ukraine, on Wednesday, which damaged a kindergarten and a 14-story residential building. Credit... Valentyn Ogirenko/ReutersA helicopter carrying senior Ukrainian officials crashed on Wednesday in a Kyiv suburb, killing at least 18 people, including Ukraine’s minister of internal affairs and other pivotal figures in the wartime leadership, according to the police. The minister, Denys Monastyrsky, was the highest-ranking government official to die since Russia’s invasion began in February last year. The crash occurred at 8:20 a.m., a time of day when parents typically drop their children off at the kindergarten. Image Denys Monastyrsky, the minister for internal affairs, in Hostomel, Ukraine, in April.
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