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A helicopter crash near Kyiv kills at least 12, including Ukraine's interior minister

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A helicopter crash near Kyiv killed more than a dozen people, including the country's interior minister.

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST:

A helicopter crashed near Kyiv, Ukraine, this morning. The dead include that country's interior minister. And this, of course, in the middle of a war. NPR's Lauren Migaki has been to the crash site and is on the line. Hi there, Lauren.

LAUREN MIGAKI, BYLINE²: Hi, Steve.

INSKEEP: What happened?

MIGAKI: Yeah, so Ukraine's interior minister and several of his colleagues were on board a helicopter on their way to one of the conflict areas here in the country. So they took off, and around 8 a.m., the helicopter crashed into a suburb of Kyiv onto a kindergarten. People who I talked to who are on the scene stressed that it was a really foggy morning. They don't know if that played into it. But there's a lot of conflicting figures now from different government officials as to how many people on the ground were killed, including how many children from the nursery. And we know that many are in the hospital, but we've heard different reports of how many.

INSKEEP: What did you see when you got there?

MIGAKI: Yeah, so we arrived a little while after the crash, but you could still smell the smoke in the air. Local people were dropping off stuffed animals and carnations³. Everyone in the area was kind of teary eyed. It happened in a really quiet residential⁴ area, a suburb called Brovary, where there's a lot of tall apartment buildings. It's clearly an area where a lot of families live. Colorful playgrounds kind of dot the landscape. And the kindergarten's a really small two-story building, and half of it is just totally destroyed. Witnesses I spoke⁵ to say that when the helicopter hit the building, a huge fire broke out. The flames were reaching as high as the 12-story buildings around it.

And so standing⁶ there was Nina Mattoon (ph), who was with her two grandchildren. They were watching as crews were working to put out the fire and take care of the rubble⁷ at the school. Her grandson, Vova (ph), is 5, and he actually attends that school.

NINA MATTOON: (Non-English language spoken).

MIGAKI: So she says he was sick yesterday, and so today they decided⁸ to keep him home with her. And if he wasn't sick, he would have been at the school. Her grandkids, who all live near her, lived under Russian occupation elsewhere in the country, and she says this morning's explosion has really unsettled them.

MATTOON: (Non-English language spoken).

MIGAKI: Yeah, and so she started crying there and saying that she just feels great sorrow because she's heard from her friends that, you know, children died there.

INSKEEP: The timeline becomes of intense interest here. You said this was about 8 o'clock in the morning. Is it your understanding that there would, in fact, have been students in the building at that particular hour?

MIGAKI: Yeah, that's what officials have said. And while they've gone back and forth⁹ on the numbers of how many children have died, there are many, many who have been hospitalized.

INSKEEP: Who was the interior minister who was on board that helicopter?

MIGAKI: Yeah, so he's Denys Monastyrskyi. He was the interior minister. He oversaw¹⁰ Ukraine's law enforcement, the police force, national guard, state emergency services - pretty big stuff for a country at war. He was a lawyer. He spent his life working in government. He was a parliamentarian before he took the role of minister of the interior in 2021. At the time, he told reporters it was the most difficult decision in his life, and he highlighted all the sacrifices he made to take on such a role. I should note he was 42 years old, and he leaves behind a wife and two sons. And in the interim¹¹, the head of the police will step into this role.

INSKEEP: I guess we should underline one more thing. In the United States, the secretary of the interior has things - has authority over things like public lands. But in most countries - I presume in Ukraine - the interior minister is someone who oversees¹² security services, services that would be vital in times of war.

MIGAKI: Yeah, that's right, including customs and border and things like that.

INSKEEP: NPR's Lauren Migaki in Kyiv, thanks so much.

MIGAKI: Thank you.

1 transcript   

n.抄本，誊本，副本，肄业证书

参考例句：

• A transcript of the tapes was presented as evidence in court.一份录音带的文字本作为证据被呈交法庭。
• They wouldn't let me have a transcript of the interview.他们拒绝给我一份采访的文字整理稿。

2 byline   

n.署名；v.署名

参考例句：

• His byline was absent as well.他的署名也不见了。
• We wish to thank the author of this article which carries no byline.我们要感谢这篇文章的那位没有署名的作者。

3 carnations   

n.麝香石竹，康乃馨( carnation的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• You should also include some carnations to emphasize your underlying meaning.\" 另外要配上石竹花来加重这涵意的力量。” 来自汉英文学 - 围城
• Five men per ha. were required for rose production, 6 or 7 men for carnations. 种植玫瑰每公顷需5个男劳力，香石竹需6、7个男劳力。 来自辞典例句

4 residential   

adj.提供住宿的；居住的；住宅的

参考例句：

• The mayor inspected the residential section of the city.市长视察了该市的住宅区。
• The residential blocks were integrated with the rest of the college.住宿区与学院其他部分结合在了一起。

5 spoke   

n.（车轮的）辐条；轮辐；破坏某人的计划；阻挠某人的行动 v.讲，谈（speak的过去式）；说；演说；从某种观点来说

参考例句：

• They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
• The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。

6 standing   

n.持续，地位；adj.永久的，不动的，直立的，不流动的

参考例句：

• After the earthquake only a few houses were left standing.地震过后只有几幢房屋还立着。
• They're standing out against any change in the law.他们坚决反对对法律做任何修改。

7 rubble   

n.（一堆）碎石，瓦砾

参考例句：

• After the earthquake,it took months to clean up the rubble.地震后，花了数月才清理完瓦砾。
• After the war many cities were full of rubble.战后许多城市到处可见颓垣残壁。

8 decided   

adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的

参考例句：

• This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
• There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。

9 forth   

adv.向前；向外，往外

参考例句：

• The wind moved the trees gently back and forth.风吹得树轻轻地来回摇晃。
• He gave forth a series of works in rapid succession.他很快连续发表了一系列的作品。

10 oversaw   

v.监督，监视( oversee的过去式 )

参考例句：

• He will go down as the president who oversaw two historic transitions. 他将作为见证了巴西两次历史性转变的总统，安然引退。 来自互联网
• Dixon oversaw the project as creative director of Design Research Studio. 狄克逊监督项目的创意总监设计研究工作室。 来自互联网

11 interim   

adj.暂时的，临时的；n.间歇，过渡期间

参考例句：

• The government is taking interim measures to help those in immediate need.政府正在采取临时措施帮助那些有立即需要的人。
• It may turn out to be an interim technology.这可能只是个过渡技术。

12 oversees   

v.监督，监视( oversee的第三人称单数 )

参考例句：

• She oversees both the research and the manufacturing departments. 她既监督研究部门又监督生产部门。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The Department of Education oversees the federal programs dealing with education. 教育部监管处理教育的联邦程序。 来自互联网