KYIV, Ukraine — A high adviser to President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine was shot at on Wednesday whereas being pushed in his automobile in Kyiv, in what the authorities stated was an assassination try.
The adviser, Serhiy Shefir, was not injured within the assault, however the driver of the automobile was wounded and hospitalized, Irina Venediktova, Ukraine’s prosecutor common, stated in a press release, accompanied with an image of Mr. Shefir’s black Audi riddled with bullets on the driving force’s facet.
“Unidentified individuals, in accordance with preliminary knowledge, about 10 photographs fired from automated caliber weapons,” the prosecutor stated.
Mr. Shefir is a longtime adviser to the Ukrainian president and is taken into account Mr. Zelensky’s closest confidant.