Zelenskyy was supposed to hold Staff meeting on day of helicopter crash with leadership of Interior Ministry
On the day the helicopter crashed at a kindergarten in Brovary, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was supposed to hold a meeting of the Staff of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief, which Denys Monastyrskyi, the Minister of Internal Affairs, who died in the plane crash, planned to join from Poltava. Source: Oleksii Danilov, Secretary of the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine (NSDC), on TV on 19 January Quote: "Now the investigation is underway, and all the circumstances of this terrible disaster are being clarified.
I can say that the president of the country was supposed to convene the Staff of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief yesterday at 10:00. We usually never make this public.
The Minister of Internal Affairs was supposed to join this meeting from Poltava at 10:00. I received the last text message from him at 08:07, and literally in a few minutes, this terrible catastrophe happened."
Details: Danilov did not answer the question of whether Russia could have been involved in the crash of the State Emergency Service's helicopter with the leadership of the Internal Ministry on board. "We will definitely find out all the circumstances," he promised.
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The NSDC Secretary called for no speculations about what happened and why until the final conclusions are made.
"We will definitely get an answer about what happened over Brovary yesterday morning and why," Danilov stated. Read also: Tragedy in Brovary. What is known about helicopter crash with top leadership of Ministry of Internal Affairs on board
Background:
- On the morning of 18 January, a helicopter crashed near a kindergarten in Brovary in Kyiv Oblast, causing a fire to break out. At 15:45, emergency workers reported that emergency services had completed search-and-rescue operations at the site of the helicopter crash in Brovary.
- The helicopter crash killed the top leadership of the Ukrainian Ministry of Internal Affairs: Denys Monastyrskyi, Minister of Internal Affairs, Yevhen Yenin, First Deputy Interior Minister, and Yurii Lubkovych, three of the Interior Minister's aides and security guards. The data on the number of dead has differed.
According to information confirmed as of 15:00, 14 dead had been found at the site of the helicopter crash, including one child.
- Kyrylo Tymoshenko, Deputy Head of the President's Office, said that the helicopter crash in Brovary occurred during a flight by Interior Minister Denys Monastyrskyi to one of Ukraine's hotspots where fighting is ongoing.
- The Security Service has launched an investigation into the causes of the helicopter crash in Brovary; the main avenues of investigation are violation of flight safety rules, technical malfunction and intentional actions.
- The Cabinet of Ministers appointed Ihor Klymenko, the Head of the National Police, as the Acting Interior Minister at an extraordinary meeting on 18 January.
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