This morning ten bullets hit the car he was traveling in Sergelj Chefir, first advisor to the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky, in the Lisnyky area, near Kiev. The shots would have started from the forest that runs along the busy road and have “seriously injured” the driver. No information has been released on Chefir’s condition, but according to a government official, “he is alive and well” although in a “state of shock”. The Ukrainian police have launched a special operation to stop the assailants who tried to kill him, according to the first hypotheses it could be an attack “clearly associated” with an “aggressive and belligerent campaign against the policies of the head of state”.
The Ukrainian president, who is currently in New York to attend the United Nations General Assembly, has announced that he will return to the capital soon after his speech in the UN headquarters. In the video message, posted on his social media accounts, he promised “a strong response” to an attack aimed at his efforts to reform Ukraine: “Shooting a friend’s car from a forest is a sign of weakness,” he said. added, emphasizing its “fight against crime and influential financial groups”.
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Zelensky was elected in 2019 with a promise to eradicate the corruption that plagues the country. “This mandate given to me by the Ukrainian people is a symbol of change,” he said. Before becoming president Volodymyr Zelensky was a famous actor and comedian, he also played the role of the Ukrainian president in a TV series, and Sergey Chefir was his close associate in his production company.
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