A hail of bullets hits the vehicle of the closest adviser to the head of state Volodymyr Selenskyi.
The perpetrator or perpetrators are on the run.
Kiev - Unidentified people have attempted the murder of the closest adviser to the head of state Volodymyr Zelenskyi in Ukraine.
According to the AFP news agency, Sergei Shefir's car was shot at near Lesniki.
This was also announced by an advisor to the Ukrainian Interior Minister Anton Gerashchenko.
According to initial findings, the shots were fired from automatic weapons.
The driver of the car was seriously injured.
Sergei Shefir is doing well, however, said a member of Zelenskyi's “Servants of the People” party to the Russian news agency RIA Novosti.
The attack came from ambush.
At least ten shots were fired at the vehicle.
Ukraine: Assassination attempt on Volodymyr Zelenskyi's adviser - search for perpetrators ongoing
The shooter (s) are still at large.
A special task force was assigned to locate the wanted persons.
The Ukraine Prosecutor's Office has opened an investigation into attempted murder.
"This is very serious," said Deputy Home Secretary Anton Gerashchenko in an interview with the New York Times.
Sergej Schefir is 57 years old and, like President Volodymyr Selenskyj, comes from the Ukrainian industrial city of Krywy Rig.
Both are still close friends and neighbors in Kiev.
In 2003, together with his brother and Selenskyi, he founded the television production company Kvartal 95. There, Schefir's tasks included the production of the television series “Servants of the People”, in which the future head of state played a teacher who unexpectedly becomes president.
In recent years there have been repeated attacks on politicians and journalists in Ukraine.
Head of State Volodymyr Selenskyj is currently in New York, where he is participating in the General Assembly of the United Nations *.
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