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Requiem For An Agent Of The Ukrainian State

Military stand at the site where a helicopter crashed near a kindergarten in Brovary, outside the capital Kyiv, killing Sixteen people, including two children and Ukrainian interior minister, on January 18, 2023, ami... Military stand at the site where a helicopter crashed near a kindergarten in Brovary, outside the capital Kyiv, killing Sixteen people, including two children and Ukrainian interior minister, on January 18, 2023, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Photo by Sergei Supinsky / AFP) (Photo by SERGEI SUPINSKY/AFP via Getty Images) MORE LESS

January 20, 2023 7:00 a.m.

Yevhen Enin spent the past several years rising through the ranks of Ukrainian diplomacy and law enforcement, repeatedly finding himself at the center of his home country’s entanglements with the United States.

Now, nearly one year into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Enin is dead. A victim of a Wednesday morning helicopter crash on Kyiv’s outskirts, Enin perished along with the leadership of Ukraine’s Interior Ministry.

I first met Enin in 2017, when I started covering the Ukrainian side of the Mueller investigation.

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