In the first days of the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation on Bankova Street in the center of Kyiv, only a narrow circle of people remained who controlled all processes.
Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky spoke about this in the documentary film Monastyrsky’s Diary.
According to him, everyone else “disappeared somewhere”; they were not in the President’s Office in those first days of the big war. The President did not specify who exactly he was talking about.
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– We just had a narrow circle of people who were here, who were on Bankovaya, who managed all the processes – from weapons, food, fortification of districts, defense of the capital… There simply weren’t many people-managers who led these processes. Everyone else disappeared somewhere – someone left, ran, walked. And then everyone came back and began to say what was this way or what wasn’t so at that moment when there were few of us,” Zelensky emphasized.
The president added that at the beginning of the invasion, “only friends remained.” And one of those who was in Kyiv and made important decisions for the country was the Minister of Internal Affairs Denis Monastyrsky.
“He was one of this narrow circle of very responsible people,” Zelensky said.
The documentary portrait is dedicated to the former head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Denis Monastyrsky.
Death of Monastyrsky: what is known
On January 18, a State Emergency Service helicopter crashed in Brovary (Kiev region), carrying the leadership of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Then the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Denis Monastyrsky, First Deputy Minister Evgeny Enin, Secretary of State Yuri Lubkovich, Deputy Head of the Patronage Service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Tatyana Shutyak, other officials and the helicopter crew died.
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A helicopter carrying the leadership of the Ministry of Internal Affairs fell near a kindergarten and a high-rise building. The tragedy claimed the lives of 5-year-old Milana Ponomarenko and her mother Elena, who had just brought the child to kindergarten.
Among the causes of the crash, three versions were considered: violation of flight rules, technical malfunction and intentional actions.
In August, five officials of the State Service of Ukraine for Emergency Situations (SSES) received suspicion. According to investigators, they were involved in a number of violations of traffic safety rules and the operation of a helicopter, which led to the death of people.
