By Max Hunder and Tom BalmforthBROVARY, Ukraine (Reuters) -At least 16 people including Ukraine’s interior minister, other senior officials and three children were killed on Wednesday when a helicopter crashed near a nursery outside Kyiv in what President Volodymyr Zelenskiy called a “terrible tragedy”. The Kyiv region’s governor said children and staff had been in the nursery at the time of the crash on Wednesday morning. “We saw wounded people, we saw children. The national police chief confirmed that Interior Minister Denys Monastyrskyi, who was appointed under Zelenskiy in 2021, had been killed. The SBU State Security Service said it was investigating and considering several possible causes for the crash, including a breach of flight rules, a technical malfunction and the intentional destruction of the helicopter.
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