War in Ukraine live The day after the deadly helicopter

War in Ukraine live: The day after the deadly helicopter crash in Kyiv, Ukrainian security services are investigating three leads

Cover photo: Investigators examine the remains of the Ukrainian Interior Minister’s helicopter that crashed in Brovary near Kyiv on January 18, 2023. Efrem Lukatsky / AP

  • Interior Minister of Ukraine Denys Monastyrsky was killed on Wednesday January 18 near Kyiv when his helicopter crashed. The aircraft, a Super Puma EC-225 (Airbus Helicopters), crashed in Brovary for reasons still unknown.
  • According to the State Emergency Situations Service (SES), which owns the helicopter, there were nine people on board, including the minister, his deputy Yevgeny Yenin and State Secretary of the Interior Yuri Lubkovich. According to a recent report, 14 people died, including a child, and 25 injured are hospitalized, including 11 children.
  • “The Security Service of Ukraine has opened a criminal investigation into this terrible event”Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a speech on Wednesday evening to “clarify all the circumstances of the disaster”.
  • At the World Economic Forum in Davos (Switzerland), the Ukrainian President launched a “Call for Speed” via video conference. in decision-making to help Ukraine arm itself with heavy weapons. Germany, in particular, is reluctant to authorize the delivery of Leopard tanks to the country.
  • NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg assured that the member countries of his organization would supply Kyiv with “heavier and more modern” weapons.
  • On the other hand, the United States is not ready to give Ukraine its most advanced heavy tanks, the Abramsa senior Pentagon official said Wednesday, citing maintenance and training issues as the reason for the refusal.
  • The Contact Group for Ukraine, which brings together some fifty countries led by the United States, meets on Friday to the Ramstein US base in Germany to coordinate further aid to Kyiv.
  • On the Russian side, President Vladimir Putin assured on Wednesday that he had “no doubt” about his victorynearly a year into the operation, and claimed that Russia was facing a “neo-Nazi regime” in Ukraine.
  • His Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov went further and compared the Westerners’ actions against his country to the Nazi regime’s “final solution” to exterminate the Jews.

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