Ukrainian interior minister among 14 killed in crash

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For the first time in nearly 11 months of war with Russia, a Ukrainian cabinet member is dead. Interior Minister Denys Monastyrskyi was killed when his helicopter went down in a suburb of Kyiv. In all, at least 14 people died in the crash. Among them, at least one child was killed on the ground. Nick Schifrin reports.

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