Ukrainian authorities on Thursday were examining the scenarios surrounding a helicopter crash that eliminated the nations interior minister and 13 others.Wednesdays crash outside Kyiv came as the head of NATO said at the yearly World Economic Forum in Davos that allies were set to supply much heavier weapons to the war-battered country.Ukraine did not claim direct Russian involvement in the helicopter crash, however President Volodymyr Zelensky said the disaster was a repercussion of the war.

There are no mishaps at war.

These are all war results, Zelensky stated in English, appearing by video link at Davos.He also renewed require contemporary, Western-designed heavy tanks, which analysts state are vital to pushing through entrenched protective lines in eastern Ukraine.In a barely veiled referral to Germany, where Chancellor Olaf Scholz is weighing whether to greenlight the export of its highly concerned Leopard tanks, Zelensky issued a call for speed.

The time the Free World utilizes to believe is utilized by the terrorist state to eliminate, Zelensky informed delegates in Davos.The statement followed NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg stated the alliance would supply advanced support, heavier weapons and more contemporary weapons, due to the fact that this is a defend our values.

Meanwhile, in Washington, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Colin Kahl said the United States was not there yet when it pertained to offering sophisticated Abrams tanks to Ukraine, though he did not entirely close the door on a shift in the future.Children were sobbing The helicopter bring Interior Minister Denys Monastyrsky crashed next to a kindergarten and a residential structure in Brovary, a commuter town for the capital Kyiv that was the scene of intense battling with Russian forces last year.Fourteen individuals were eliminated, including Monastyrsky, other ministry officials and a kid, Zelensky said in his evening address to the country.

Another 25 people were wounded, consisting of 11 children.He included that an examination had been opened to clarify all the scenarios of the catastrophe.

Minister Denys Monastyrsky, [his deputy] Yevhen Yenin and their associates who died in the crash are not individuals who can be easily replaced, Zelensky stated.

It is a really big loss for the state.

My acknowledgements to the families.

Dmytro Serbyn, who remained in his apartment when the helicopter crashed, rushed to help kids as quickly as he saw flames rippling over the kindergarten.

They were trying to find their parents, kids were sobbing ...

their faces were cut and covered in blood, Serbyn told AFP.

We took out one lady.

I covered her in a jacket, her face was injured ...

She did not tremble, did not sob.

The child, Polina, was so terribly injured that her dad did not instantly acknowledge her, Serbyn told AFP.Heartbreaking tragedyAmateur video flowing on social media in the immediate consequences recorded weeps and a large blaze.It was not immediately clear where the helicopter was going.The presidency said it was headed to frontline regions, while Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko stated it was flying to a missile strike site in Dnipro.Zelensky stated details on the scenarios of the crash would be provided as soon as clear realities are developed.

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President Joe Biden said in a declaration it was a heartbreaking tragedy, calling Monastyrsky a reformer and patriot.

We do not have any notion today regarding what caused that crash, U.S.

National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby informed reporters.Britain said: Ukrainians will continue to be collateral [victims] as long as [Russian President Vladimir] Putin continues his needless war.

Berlin, on the other hand, provided Germanys support in determining the reasons for the helicopter crash.

A innovative, excellent personKlitschko, the Kyiv mayor, admired Monastyrsky as a young, very innovative, good individual ...

constantly proactive in supporting and defending the lives of our people.

The 42-year-old, a trained lawyer, had actually acted as Ukraines interior minister from July 2021.

He was an essential member of Zelenskys party and was wed with two children.Aviation accidents are fairly common in Ukraine.In among the most dangerous current incidents, 26 individuals, most of them air cadets, were killed when their plane crashed near the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv in September 2020.

The town of Brovary is found some 20 kilometers (12 miles) northeast of Kyiv and was among the metropolitan centers around the capital that Russian troops had actually attempted to capture after attacking Ukraine last year.Russian concern Meanwhile, in Moscow Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov likened Western policies on Russia to Nazi leader Adolf Hitlers Final Solution plan of genocide versus Jewish people.

The task is the exact same: the final option of the Russian question.

Simply as Hitler wanted to lastly fix the Jewish question, Lavrov said.Canadas Foreign Ministry summoned the Russian ambassador to oppose what it called Lavrovs anti-Semitic remarks in addition to condemn a current Russian strike on a residential structure in Ukraines Dnipro that eliminated at least 45 people.