Minister in Helicopter Crash

Ukraine-  On Wednesday, the interior minister of Ukraine and approximately a dozen other people, including a child on the ground, died after a helicopter carrying them crashed into a kindergarten in a misty residential neighborhood of Kyiv.

Denys Monastyrskyi, the interior minister who handled the nation’s police and emergency services, is the highest-ranking official to die since Russia invaded Ikraine almost 11 months ago. His demise, along with that of the other members of his ministry’s leadership and the entire helicopter crew, marked the second significant tragedy to strike Ukraine in the previous four days, following the death of numerous civilians when a Russian missile struck an apartment complex in the city of Dnipro.