Ukraine's Internal Affairs Ministry revises security system after tragedy in Brovary
The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine has completely reviewed the security system after the helicopter crash in Brovary, Kyiv Oblast, where the top leadership of the ministry died.
Source: Ihor Klymenko, acting Minister of Internal Affairs on the air of the national television, reports Interfax-Ukraine
Quote: "The security system has been completely revised. All of the helicopters of the same class as the one that crashed in Brovary are currently stationed at the airfields, the relevant specialists are working. We are fully checking all the helicopters that were in the system of the Ministry of Internal Affairs."
Details: According to Klymenko, the leadership of the Ministry of Internal Affairs are currently prohibited from travelling by helicopters, only by road transport, until the investigation is completed and the causes of the crash are finally known.
As the head of the Ministry reported, the inspection will be delayed, perhaps for a month or two, until it is established together with foreign specialists that these helicopters are safe.
Previously: Denys Shmyhal, Prime Minister of Ukraine, submitted a proposal to the Verkhovna Rada to appoint Ihor Klymenko as Minister of Internal Affairs.
Background:
- On the morning of 18 January, a helicopter crashed near a kindergarten in Brovary in Kyiv Oblast, causing a fire.
- 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, as well as three of the Interior Minister's aides and security guards. Fourteen people died in total, one of them was a child.
- 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.
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