Ukraine's interior minister is among the dead as his helicopter crashes at a school

'As of this minute, three children died. It is an indescribable pain,' said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

The helicopter went down in a residential area that is home to apartment buildings, a shopping center and colorful playgrounds.

Nina Letun, 63, watched workers clear the site alongside her two grandchildren, Vova, 5, and Viktoria, 6. Vova is a student at the school. "He was sick yesterday, that's why today he stayed with me," Letun said."If he wasn't sick, he would have been there."Workers pass the scene where a helicopter crashed in Brovary, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday. The chief of Ukraine's National Police says the crash in a Kyiv suburb has killed 18 people, including Ukraine's interior minister and two children.

One mother, Inga Litchenko, came by pushing her 2-and-a-half-year-old daughter, Elyzaveta, in a stroller. She says she was planning to send Elyzaveta to this very school.

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