A helicopter with an ex-minister on board crashed in Ukraine
Former Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food Taras Kutovoy died tragically, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
Former Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine Pavel Rozenko reported this on Facebook.
“Taras Kutovoy died tragically...” wrote Rozenko.
At the same time, the press service of the State Emergency Service in the Poltava region informed that near the village. A Robinson-44 helicopter crashed in Tarasenkovo, resulting in the death of one person.
October 21 at 16 p.m. The State Emergency Service received a message about the crash of an aircraft (previously homemade) near the village. Tarasenkovo, Orzhitsky district, Poltava region.
“Upon arrival, it was established that the Robinson-44 helicopter had crashed, resulting in the death of 1 person. The helicopter was flying from Kyiv to the Poltava region. Minor combustion occurs. At 17:21 p.m. The fire caused by the helicopter crash has been extinguished. 4 people were involved from the State Emergency Service to eliminate the consequences of the incident. l/s and 1 unit. technology,” the message states.
At the same time, a number of Ukrainian media reports that a helicopter crash in the Poltava region killed former minister Kutovoy, who was a helicopter pilot.
Kutova was the Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine in the government of Volodymyr Groysman from 2016 to 2018. Before that, he was a people's deputy of Ukraine of the VII and VIII convocations.
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