Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was associated in a vehicle crash, when his motor vehicle collided with a different automobile early Thursday morning following a battlefield visit.
A spokesperson mentioned he was not very seriously injured, but failed to specify what accidents the president may have sustained.
Zelenskyy was returning to Kyiv from the Kharkiv region, in which he frequented troops in the recaptured city of Izium.
A passenger auto collided with the president’s motorcade in the Ukrainian funds, his spokesman, Sergii Nikiforov, mentioned in a Fb put up.
The driver of the other car been given initial assist from Zelenskyy’s medical crew and was taken away by ambulance, he stated.
Medics examined the president, who suffered no significant injuries, Nikiforov wrote, but gave no more information on particulars of injuries.
The spokesman included that the situations of the incident are underneath investigation.
Zelenskyy was late in putting up the nightly online video handle that he has provided in the course of the war, probably for the reason that of the automobile accident.
Visit to liberated city
Before on Wednesday President Zelenskyy built a shock visit t the eastern town of Izium, which was just lately recaptured from retreating Russian occupiers.
They remaining the war-scarred town past week after a lightning Ukrainian counteroffensive observed Kyiv reclaim significant elements of the northeastern Kharkiv area.
Zelenskyy, with his hand on his coronary heart, appeared on and sang the nationwide anthem as the flag was elevated in entrance of a burned-out metropolis corridor creating.
“The see is quite shocking but it is not surprising for me,” Zelenskyy told the press. “Due to the fact we started to see the very same pictures from Bucha, from the very first de-occupied territories … the identical destroyed structures, killed folks.”
Russian forces withdrew from Bucha, in the vicinity of Kyiv, early on in the war. The city came to worldwide awareness after the bodies of civilians — quite a few demonstrating indicators of torture — ended up uncovered dumped in the streets.
On the northern outskirts of Izium, the remains of Russian tanks and autos lay shattered along the road.
Zelenskyy explained that as Ukrainian troopers retook villages, “the lifetime arrives back.”