In a statement released by Kiev’s Ministry of Internal Affairs on Wednesday, officials said that “today, at around 10:00am, the car carrying the first assistant to the President, Sergey Shefir, was fired upon near the village of Lisnyky,” just on the outskirts of the capital. “More than ten bullets hit the car, and the driver was injured,” it added. A police operation is now underway to attempt to track down the perpetrators.
A source told local news site Strana that the assailants “shot at Shefir, and the driver was hit by three bullets. He is now in a serious condition in intensive care. Shefir himself escaped injury.” The top advisor had previously worked as a scriptwriter and producer in Zelensky’s media business, Kvartal 95, and had not previously worked in politics before the former on-screen comedian’s meteoric rise to take his country’s top job.
Zelensky is currently in New York, holding a series of meetings with foreign officials and participating in the 76th meeting of the UN General Assembly. Speaking in a video message later on Wednesday, the Ukrainian president condemned the attack, and said he would fly back to Kiev after a speech today.
Ukraine has seen a number of purported political murders in recent weeks. Last month, Vitaly Shishov, a Belarusian political dissident, was found hanged after going missing while out running. The head of a pressure group that aims to pile pressure on the government in his native country, his colleagues insist he was murdered by Belarus’ intelligence services for his activism.
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