Ukraine postpones the first conclusions of the Brovary plane crash for another month and a half

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23 Feb. () –

The Ukrainian Interior Minister, Igor Klimenko, has reported that the first conclusions of the investigation into the plane crash that caused 18 deaths, including his predecessor in office, Denis Monastirski, in the city of Brovary, will be available within one month and a half.

“As soon as all the examinations are finished, both ours — by prosecutors and officials of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) — and those of our French Airbus colleagues, as soon as all the investigations are finished, they will be posted on common. I think in a month and a half”, he said on public television.

On January 18, at least 18 people died after a helicopter, in which senior officials from the Ministry of the Interior were traveling -among them the former minister Monastirski-, fell near a nursery in the city of Brovary, located in the Kiev region.

In addition to Monastirski, the then Deputy Minister of the Interior, Yevhen Tenin, and the former Secretary of State for the Interior, Yuri Lubkovich, also died; as well as his assistants, the crew members of the device, and three children. Likewise, 29 were injured, including 15 minors.

Kiev avoided blaming Russia for the accident — at a time when Ukrainian air defenses had already failed and killed two people on the border with Poland — and President Volodymyr Zelensky called for an urgent investigation to “clarify the circumstances of what happened”.