Monastyrsky was 'very close' to President Zelensky

We're hearing more about the senior official killed in this crash - Interior Minister Denys Monastyrsky.

Ukrainian MP for Kharkiv Mariia Mezentseva says she and her colleagues hold great memories of a man she says was a key member of the war effort in Ukraine.

Speaking to BBC News from Davos, Switzerland, she said he was a big man, with "a lot of energy".

"My first feelings when I saw the news It thought that this was fake," she said, "but unfortunately it is true."

Mezentseva continued:

"He was responding 24/7 to his colleagues, friends and family and we will always remember him as a very bright smiley, friendly, patriotic person and a civil servant of Ukraine."

He was responding 24/7 to his colleagues, friends and family and we will always remember him as a very bright smiley, friendly, patriotic person and a civil servant of Ukraine."

 

"Our state will always remember him. Indeed he was very close to President Zelensky, being next to him from day one at the start of his campaigning."

Our state will always remember him. Indeed he was very close to President Zelensky, being next to him from day one at the start of his campaigning."