Ukraine suspects Russia after the death of its interior minister

It is also known that there was fogthat the helicopter, an EC225 Super-Puma designed for long-range flights, fell on a nurseryand that the Minister of the Interior was traveling in it, Denis Monastirsky, and some of his team members. They all headed for a “hotspot” on the front line (probably near Kharkiv) and all of them have died, as confirmed by Kyrylo Tymoshenko, deputy head of the Ukrainian presidential office.

Beyond this information, the Ukrainian authorities still do not know the causes of the accident. “Is soon”they insist. “We are investigating”, they repeat. And while it is true that no one has directly blamed Russia for what happened, its involvement is one of the options on the table.

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Especially since the Kremlin army it has been bombing for months civil and energy infrastructures in numerous Ukrainian cities. But also because, two days after the appointment of General Valery Gerasimov As the new commander of the Russian Armed Forces, Vladimir Putin’s guts bombed a building and several properties in the city of Dnipro. A deliberate attack against a civilian target that has left at least 40 dead and could suggest a new twist in the Russian army’s military strategy.

“Several versions of the tragedy are being studied,” said the Ukrainian intelligence services (SUB) in a statement. Among them are three possibilities: “the violation of the flight rules, a technical malfunction of the helicopter and deliberate actions to destroy the vehicle.” The latter contemplates the possibility that the cause of the accident is sabotage.

debris and flowers

The magnitude of what the Ukrainian president, Volodimir Zelensky, has described as a “terrible tragedy” is also evident in the images that arrive from the rubble. Nearly half of the daycare building has been charred. At the entrance, helicopter rotor blades they lie inert and pieces of the device are embedded in the surrounding buildings. On the street there are also flowers and candles that local residents have been placing in recent hours to honor the victims.

The head of the kyiv region police, Andriy Nebytov, explained that the damaged helicopter was “flying low for a long period of time”but asked for time to clarify what happened and called witnesses.

In fact, some of them, consulted by the local chain Suspilnethey suggest that “the helicopter was circling as it burned” and flew in a certain direction. “I understand that he chose the small building, because there is a two-story building there, and here, ten,” says the witness.

“We saw wounded, we saw children. There was a lot of fog here, everything was scattered everywhere. We could hear screams, we ran towards them,” a 17-year-old local resident told the news agency. Reuters.

The sabotage technique

To date there are indications that Ukraine has used the technique of sabotage on numerous occasions since the start of the war. In fact, in summer, before launching his successful counteroffensive in the south of the country, they included it in their military strategy to destabilize the enemy.

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The attack on the Kerch bridge, the fire in the ammunition depot in the Russian city of Belgorod or a series of explosions in Crimea, the peninsula illegally annexed by Russia in 2014, are just some of the examples. They are mostly attacks “seemingly inexplicable” that the Russian forces have suffered and whose authorship kyiv has not recognized.