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Several theories are current in the investigation into what caused the fatal helicopter crash in Brovary just outside Kyiv on Wednesday.
14 people died, including the country’s interior minister Denys Monastyrskyj.
– There are several theories and I am not authorized to talk about any of them until the investigation is complete, said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyh in Davos, in response to the question of whether the helicopter crash was an accident.
In his daily speech on Wednesday night, he promised that the facts will be communicated as soon as they are established. The criminal investigation is being carried out by the Security Service of Ukraine in cooperation with other agencies, according to the president.
Helped children on site
Brovary resident Dmytro Serbyn was in his apartment when the helicopter crashed. He rushed to the scene to help the children when he saw flames at the preschool, reports the AFP news agency.
– They were looking for their parents, children were crying… their faces had wounds and were covered in blood, he says.
– We pulled out a girl. I wrapped her in a jacket, her face was injured. She didn’t shake, didn’t cry, says Serbyn.
Nine hours
The rescue operation lasted for almost nine hours and hundreds of people were involved in the work on site, according to the president.
The helicopter crashed near a preschool and a residential building in the Kiev suburb of Brovary, where fierce fighting took place at the start of the war last year.
A total of 14 people died, including a child, according to Zelensky. 25 others were injured, eleven of them children.
– It is really a huge loss for the state. My condolences to the families, Zelenskyy said in the speech.