They tried to assassinate the main aide of the Ukrainian president: his driver was seriously injured

Unknown people fired on the car in which the Ukrainian President’s main aide, Volodymyr Zelensky, Volodymyr Zelensky, was driving near the town of Lisnyky, in the Kiev region, on Wednesday, injuring the driver., reported the national police.

The car was hit by more than ten bullets, according to a statement from the Ukrainian security forces.

Serhiy Shefir, Zelensky’s first assistant, was not injured in the attack., according to police information.

The driver was “seriously injured”, as Interior Minister Antón Geráshchenko wrote on his Facebook account, which indicated that the shots were fired with automatic weapons and they came from a forest.

The president’s office linked the attack to Zelensky’s policy of “desoligarchization”., who is in New York to attend the United Nations General Assembly.

The president promised this Wednesday a “Strong response” against the armed men who opened fire on the car in which his main adviser was, what the authorities described as an attempted assassination.

“It’s a weakness to say hello to myself while shooting my friend’s car from a forest. But the response will be overwhelming “Zelenski said from New York.

The Ukrainian government has drafted a bill which, among other things, establishes a special register of oligarchs, who will be barred from funding parties and buying state enterprises as part of extensive privatization processes.

“We certainly associate this attack with an aggressive and even militant campaign against the active policies of the Head of State.”said the adviser to the president’s chief of staff, Mikhail Podoliak, to the Ukrainian newspaper Vesti.

It is “a policy aimed at dramatically reduce the traditional influence of phantom oligarchs in social processes, as well as alienate political and financial groups that openly work for our external opponents», He indicated.

(With information from EFE)

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