<div style="text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size: 1rem;"><b>Sixteen people, including Ukraine’s interior minister and two children, were killed when a helicopter crashed near a nursery outside the capital Kyiv, the head of national police, Igor Klymenko, said. Among the dead are several top officials of the interior ministry including Interior Minister Denys Monastyrsky.</b></span><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Emergency services are working to rescue children and employees after the crash near Brovary, Kyiv region.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Ukraine is a step closer to winning approval for German-made modern battle tanks and has secured pledges of more Patriot defence missiles.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Ukraine’s first lady Olena Zelenska urges delegates at the World Economic Forum in Davos to do more to help end the war. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is expected to speak to the forum on Wednesday. Aljazeera</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd24/kh</div>