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Ukraine: a helicopter crashes near a school in the Kiev region, 18 dead including the Minister of the Interior

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January 29, 2023

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Sylvie Claire / January 20, 2023

A helicopter crashed Wednesday morning near a school in the Kiev region, killing 18 people including the interior minister and three children, a new tragedy in Ukraine a few days after a deadly Russian strike in Dnipro.

Tragedy in Brovary. The number of victims has increased. At 10:30 a.m., 18 dead, including 3 children,” said the governor of the region, Oleksiy Kulba, on Telegram. He said that “there are also 29 injured, including 15 children,” raising fears of an even heavier toll.

On images circulating on social networks, one could see the remains of the helicopter mixed with debris, close to a car destroyed under the weight of metal. Firemen and police officers were on the scene, according to an AFP team.

Among the victims were Interior Minister Denys Monastyrsky, 42, his first deputy Yevgeny Yenin, and the ministry’s state secretary Yuriy Lubkovich, who were on board the aircraft along with six other people, the head of the Ukrainian national police said in a statement. “My colleagues, my friends. What a tragic loss. Sincere condolences to their families,” Anton Gerachtchenko, an adviser to Monastyrsky, reacted on Twitter.

The purpose of this flight (was to go) to one of the hot spots in our country where the fighting is going on. The Minister of the Interior was going there,” Kyrylo Tymoshenko, the deputy head of the presidential office, told Ukrainian television.

This former lawyer by profession was in office since July 2021. He had become a deputy in the Rada, the Ukrainian parliament, in 2019 under the label “Servant of the People”, the presidential party.

The crash took place in Brovary, a city of some 100,000 inhabitants that touches the eastern suburbs of Kiev. Heavy fighting had taken place there between Ukrainians and Russians as Moscow’s troops tried to break the lock on the capital in the first weeks of their invasion.

At the time of the tragedy, “children and employees” of the kindergarten located near the crash site were at the scene, Kouleba said. According to images published on social networks, a huge fire broke out after the helicopter fell, a residential building was also nearby. No information on the cause of the tragedy was immediately disclosed.

Earlier, Oleksiï Kouleba had said that “the circumstances” of this accident were “under development”. The aircraft that crashed belonged to the State Emergency Service, which depends on the Ministry of the Interior, according to a spokesman for the Ukrainian Air Force. One of the last major accidents of this type in recent years in Ukraine dates back to September 2020 when 26 people died in the crash of an Antonov-26 near Kharkiv (northeast).

This new tragedy comes in the middle of the war with Russia, four days after a deadly strike in Dnipro, in eastern Ukraine. A Russian missile devastated a residential building on Saturday, killing at least 45 people including six children, one of the deadliest bombings since the beginning of the Russian invasion in February 2022.

The youngest victim “was 11 months old”, lamented Tuesday evening the deputy head of the Cabinet of the Ukrainian presidency, Kyrylo Timoshenko, after more than three days of research. Under the rubble, the rescue workers had extracted injured people, but also lifeless bodies, trapped under huge sections of concrete.

This new strike on a civilian target has caused great emotion among the Ukrainian population, while the country has been fighting against the Russian invasion for nearly 11 months, often in very difficult conditions.

Emotionally, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky vowed to bring to justice “each person guilty of this war crime”, pointing directly to the Russian army as responsible for this carnage. Moscow, for its part, has firmly denied any involvement in this bloody strike, as in previous episodes.

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Shooting in Hamburg, Germany, leaves two dead

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March 27, 2023

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Sylvie Claire / March 27, 2023

Two people died in a shooting that took place Saturday night in Hamburg (Germany). According to the police, a man would have shot another individual before turning the weapon against him.

It could be a settlement of accounts between motorcycle gangs, the German press reported Sunday.

Earlier this month, the city of Hamburg was the scene of a shooting that left 7 dead and 12 wounded among the Jehovah’s Witness community.

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Actor Peter Hardy, known for his role in “Neighbours”, was found dead

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March 23, 2023

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Steph Deschamps / March 20, 2023

Peter Hardy is gone. The “Neighbours” actor died of drowning on a beach in Australia.

The world of cinema is in mourning this Sunday. We learned that Peter Hardy died on Thursday. The Australian actor died of drowning on a beach in Fremantle near Perth, Australia. According to several local sources, he was snorkeling at the time of the facts.

Peter Hardy was known for his role in the soap opera “Neighbours”. He had a career of almost 40 years on the big and small screen. He had also participated in the musical “Mamma Mia”.

The actor was 66 years old.

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War in Ukraine: the International Criminal Court will not let go of Vladimir Putin, the international arrest warrant remains valid for life

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March 23, 2023

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The arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court in The Hague (ICC) for Russian President Vladimir Putin will remain valid even if Russia’s war against Ukraine ends.

“There is no statute of limitations on war crimes,” ICC Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan told BBC Radio on Monday.

The latter highlights Vladimir Putin’s alleged responsibility for the war crimes committed in Ukraine since Russia invaded the country. The arrest warrants against the head of state and his commissioner for children’s rights, Maria Lvova-Belova, will therefore remain hanging over their heads for the rest of their lives, he said. “Unless they appear before the independent judges of the court and the judges decide to drop the charges. »

The arrest warrants are essentially symbolic. A trial seems to be out of the question for the time being.

The British lawyer and chief prosecutor in the trial of former Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic in The Hague told Sky News reporters that because of the arrest warrant for him, Vladimir Putin has become a wanted criminal. “This label will stick to him for the rest of his life, unless he is tried and acquitted or, which is almost unthinkable, the ICC withdraws the arrest warrant,” he explained. “The arrest warrant is a very, very important and encouraging step,” he said.