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.”