Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy held an emotional meeting Saturday morning with the families of those who died in a helicopter crash before this week. Zelenskyy spoke with family members of seven of those killed in Wednesday’s crash in the Brovary area of Kyiv, the capital.
The helicopter carrying Interior Minister Denys Monastyrskyi and other top officers slammed into a kindergarten in the domestic suburb, killing him and about a dozen other people, including a child on the ground. Monastyrskyi, who oversaw the country’s police and emergency services, was the most elderly officer killer since Russia raided Ukraine. His death, along with the rest of his ministry’s leadership and the entire helicopter crew, was the alternate major disaster in four days to transpire Ukraine, after a Russian bullet struck an apartment in the southeastern megacity of Dnipro, killing dozens of civilians.
The copter went down just days later at least 45 people were killed in a Russian bullet attack that incompletely levelled a block of apartments in the southeastern megacity of Dnipro. On the battleground, Ukrainian forces are protecting off an implacable Russian rush in the east, where Moscow has expended massive coffers for incremental advances 11 months into its full- scale irruption. Zelenskiy and his wife Olena Zelenska, paid their felicitations to the victims’ inside the hulking Ukrainian House artistic centre in central Kyiv. A crowd of mourners snaked outside toward Independence Square. Ukrainian forces overnight repelled Russian attacks in Bakhmut and other corridors of the country’s embattled east, the service said in a Facebook update Saturday morning.
A 60- year-old woman died after Russian shells hit her home in the northeastern Kharkiv region, original Governor Oleh Syniehubov said in a Telegram update. He added that four other people were wounded. In total, five civilians were killed and 13 wounded by Russian shelling over the past 24 hours in Ukraine’s east and south, where active fighting is ongoing, Kyrylo Tymoshenko said in a Telegram post.
