Images from the scene show huge flames and a plume of smoke going into the sky in Brovary, which is located northeast of the capital
Footage from what Ukrainian police said was the scene showed flames across a wide area of the suburb where the aircraft came down.
Mr Monastyrskyi, who was in charge of the Ukrainian police and other emergency services, is the most senior Ukrainian official to have died since the start of the war with Russia almost 11 months ago.
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