Top Ukrainian military aide killed by birthday present grenade

An aide to Ukraine’s top military commander died Monday when a grenade packed inside a birthday present exploded inside his Kyiv home. His son was also seriously injured.

Chastyakov, an assistant to General Valeriy Zaluzhnyy, the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, had returned to his home with several gifts he had received from friends when the deadly incident unfolded. Michael Dorgan is a writer for Fox News Digital and Fox Business.

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The military aide began to show the gifts to his family when his teenage son began playing with the device, Ukrainian Minister for Internal Affairs Ihor Klymenko wrote in a statement Monday posted to Telegram, a social media app.