Ukraine's Interim Interior Minister to be appointed as early as Wednesday
An Interim Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine is going to be elected at an extraordinary meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers on 18 January.
Source: Tamara Huseinova, press secretary for Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal, in a comment to Suspilne, Ukraine's public broadcaster
Quote: "An extraordinary meeting of the government will be held today, where the prime minister and ministers will honour the memory of their colleagues and those killed, and a Temporary Acting [Minister of Internal Affairs – ed.] will be appointed. There will be no further communication from the Cabinet of Ministers and ministers until the results of the investigation [are made public]."
Details: One of five deputies may replace Denys Monastyrskyi, Minister of Internal Affairs, who died on 18 January in a helicopter crash in Brovary, Kyiv Oblast.
Background:
- On the morning of 18 January, a helicopter crashed near a kindergarten in Brovary in Kyiv Oblast, causing a fire to break out.
- A helicopter crash in Brovary, Kyiv Oblast, has 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, State Secretary of the Interior Ministry are among those killed. A total of 16 fatalities, including 3 children, have been reported.
- Kyrylo Tymoshenko, Deputy Head of the President’s Office, has said that the helicopter crash in Brovary, Kyiv Oblast, occurred during the flight by Interior Minister Denys Monastyrskyi to one of Ukraine’s hotspots where fighting is ongoing.
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