Around 11:00 a.m., a farewell ceremony for the leadership of the Ministry of Internal Affairs began in the capital.

An hour before the start of the ceremony, colleagues, relatives and acquaintances of the deceased gathered near the building of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Kyiv to commemorate, in particular, Minister Denys Monastyrskyi, his deputy Yevgeny Yenin and State Secretary of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Yuriy Lubkovich.

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The National Center "Ukrainian House" also said goodbye to the deputy head of the Patronage Service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Tetyana Shutyak, the head of the department for ensuring protection of the Department of Internal Security of the NPU, police lieutenant colonel Mykhailo Pavlushka, the senior operational officer for particularly important cases of the Department of Internal Security of the NPU Andriy Marynchenko, and the inspector of the Department of Communication of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Mykola Anatsky .

The President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyi and First Lady Olena Zelenska also arrived at the ceremony.

The head of state and his wife laid flowers and expressed their condolences to the families of the victims.

The head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Andriy Yermak, Ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets and people's deputies also came to the ceremony.

During the farewell, friends of the victims, policemen, rescuers, employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and priests were also present.

In "Ukrainian House" today, the Minister of Internal Affairs Denys Monastyrskyi and other employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs who died in Brovary are saying goodbye.

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The coffins in the hall were placed on pedestals and covered with blue and yellow flags.

Awards and many flowers could be seen nearby.

Farewell to the crew of the rotorcraft

All the crew members of the Nizhyn special aviation detachment of the State Emergency Service were also killed in the plane crash.

Farewell to the commander of the ill-fated helicopter - the instructor of the special purpose aviation squadron Oleksandr Vasylenko, the pilot Kostyantyn Kovalenko and the flight mechanic Ivan Kasyanov took place on January 21 at 13:00 in Nizhyn.

Farewell to the victims of the plane crash

On February 21, they also said goodbye to the victims of the tragedy - Olena Ponomarenko and her 5-year-old daughter Milana.

That morning, they had just entered the kindergarten when a rotorcraft fell on them.

Hundreds of residents of Brovary, as well as mayor Ihor Sapozhko, came to say goodbye to the dead.

The funerals of mother and daughter will take place tomorrow, January 22, in the village of Novoukrayinka, Chernihiv region - Olena died there.

Photo: "Tribune - Brovary".

Photo: "Tribune - Brovary".

Tragedy in Brovary

On the morning of January 18 in Brovary, a helicopter of the State Emergency Service, on board which was the leadership of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, crashed.

In particular, Minister Denys Monastyrskyi, his deputy and State Secretary.

The leadership of the Ministry of Internal Affairs flew to one of the frontline regions.

The head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and his colleagues were in the same helicopter as they tried to arrive at their destination as quickly as possible.

In total, the tragedy took the lives of 14 people, including one child.

The girl, born in 2017, received injuries that were incompatible with life.

In total, 26 people were taken to the hospital immediately after the tragedy, including ten children with various degrees of burns.

Four children are still receiving inpatient treatment in the burn center of Kyiv, their condition is stable.

Investigators are currently on the scene, but none of the possible reasons for the rotorcraft's downfall have been confirmed.

At the same time, the manager of the aviation market, Bohdan Dolintse, said in a comment for TSN.ua that the model of this foreign helicopter (ES-225) is relatively new, but in the history of aviation there have already been incidents with such helicopters.

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