The Egyptian Foreign Ministry has expressed condolences to Ukraine and its people over the death of the interior minister and a number of officials and citizens in a helicopter crash on Wednesday.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Ahmed Abu Zeid said in a press release that Egypt offers sincere condolences and sympathy to the families of the victims of the tragic crash wishing the injured a speedy recovery.
At least 15 people including Ukraine’s interior minister, Denys Monastyrsky, other senior officials and several children have been killed after their helicopter crashed by a kindergarten in a suburb of Kyiv.
A number of children at the school in Brovary were among the casualties after debris hit the building.
Officials gave no immediate account of the cause of the crash. However, the SBU state security service said it was investigating possible causes of the crash, including a breach of flight rules, a technical malfunction and the intentional destruction of the helicopter.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy described the crash as “a terrible tragedy” on a “black morning”. “The pain is unspeakable,” he wrote on Telegram.
