EU chief Charles Michel expressed dismay on Wednesday after Ukraine's interior minister and over a dozen others were killed in an helicopter crash near Kyiv.

"We join Ukraine in grief following the tragic helicopter accident," the president of the European Council said, in a message posted to social media.

"Minister Denys Monastyrsky was a great friend of the EU. We share our deepest condolences with the families of the victims, President Volodymyr Zelensky, Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal and the people of Ukraine."

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