Ukrainian interior minister among 18 killed in Kyiv helicopter crash

Eighteen people, including Ukraine’s interior minister and three children, were killed when a helicopter crashed near a nursery school in Kyiv on Wednesday, officials said.

Oleksiy Kuleba, head of the Ukrainian capital’s regional administration, said on Telegram that 29 people had also been wounded, including 15 children, in the incident near a kindergarten and residential building in Brovary, an eastern suburb.