“In Kiev, a passenger car collided with the car of the President of Ukraine and escort vehicles,” spokesman Sergiy Nikiforov said in a statement posted on Facebook at 1:22 a.m. on Thursday local time (19:22 p.m. Wednesday). fair in Brasília).
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“The doctors accompanying the president helped the driver of the passenger car and transferred him to an ambulance,” he said.
“The president was examined by a doctor, no serious injuries were detected,” he added.
In his late-night television message broadcast shortly after the crash, Zelensky said he had just returned from the Kharkiv region and claimed that “almost the entire region” had been retaken following the Ukrainian counteroffensive to expel Russian forces.
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The war in Ukraine enters a decisive phase as Kiev's forces expel Russian troops from large areas of the country's east, defying the Kremlin's aim of seizing all of eastern Donbass.
(AFP)
