Biden says Ukraine helicopter crash a ‘heartbreaking tragedy’

US President Joe Biden offers condolences to the families of the more than a dozen people killed in a helicopter crash near Kyiv today, reiterating the United States’ “unfailing partnership” with Ukraine amid Russia’s invasion.

“We grieve with all those who are mourning this heartbreaking tragedy,” Biden says in a statement, calling Ukrainian Interior Minister Denys Monastyrsky, who was killed in the crash, a “reformer and patriot.”

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