Ukrainian police are trying to work out who ordered unidentified individuals to try to murder a top aide of President Volodymyr Zelensky after his car was sprayed with automatic gunfire on Sept. 22 morning in an attack that shocked the political elite.
Reuters: Ukraine left puzzled after assassination attempt on president’s top aide
An undated handout photograph released on Sept. 22, 2021 by the Ukrainian Presidential Press service shows the chief aide to Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky, Sergei Shefir. - The chief aide to Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky was targeted in an assassination attempt on Sept. 22, 2021 when his car came under fire, an official said. "Today at around 10 am, near the village of Lesniki, the car of the president's chief aide Sergei Shefir came under fire," an advisor to the country's interior minister, Anton Gerashchenko, said on Facebook.