A tearful Volodymyr Zelensky comforted grieving loved ones of his seven interior ministry workforce who died in a helicopter crash earlier this week.

The Ukrainian President and his wife attended a memorial service in Kyiv for Denys Monastyrskyi and different top officials killed while their chopper plummeted right into a nursery on Wednesday.

Seven others, including a child on the floor, died in the crash on the jap outskirts of the capital on Wednesday. Officials are nonetheless investigating the result in.

It was a recent blow to a country already in mourning for the FORTY FIVE other folks killed in a Russian missile attack that partially demolished a block of apartments in the southeastern city of Dnipro.

Rescue services and clinical workers on the scene of the helicopter crash (Image: EPA)

The block of residences in Dnipro decimated by way of a Russian air strike (Picture: PA)

at the somber service, Zelensky and his spouse laid plants on each and every of the seven coffins draped within the blue and yellow flags of Ukraine.

The president then spoke in brief with the households, as a small orchestra played a mournful adagio.

Writing on Telegram on Saturday, he said: ‘The indescribable disappointment is covering the soul. Ukraine is losing its absolute best sons and daughters on a daily basis.’

Comforrting mourners (Image: AFP by means of Getty)

Ukrainian Internal Minister Denys Monastyrsky died in a helicopter crash in Brovary (Image: AFP by the use of Getty)