Ukraine’s Zelensky Involved In Car Accident, Not Seriously Injured: Spokesman

A motorcyclist collided with a vehicle carrying the leader of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky when his procession passed through Kyiv, even though the president was not seriously injured in the accident, his spokesman said Thursday morning.

In Kyiv, the passenger car collided with the car of the President of Ukraine and the escort vehicle,” said Spokesman Sergiy Nikiforov in a statement posted on Facebook at 1:22 local time (22:22 GMT).

The medical officer who accompanied the president gave a passenger car driver with emergency assistance and moved it to the ambulance,” he continued.

The president was examined by a doctor, no serious injury was detected. Law enforcement officers will investigate all the conditions of the accident.”

In his speech at night broadcast, the video posted shortly after the accident, Zelensky said he had just returned from the area around Kharkiv, adding that “Almost all regions were not occupied” after the lightning retaliation to drive Russian troops.

That is our unprecedented movement of our soldiers – Ukraine once again managed to do what many people thought it was impossible,” Zelensky said.

The war in Ukraine entered a decisive phase, with Kyiv’s troops, expels Russian troops from the eastern plot, it seems seriously challenging the Kremlin ambition to capture the entire Donbas region.