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The shooting near Lisnyky outside Kyiv
Summary
A retrospective on the attack on a car carrying a close associate of Ukraine's president, which wounded the driver.
What happened on the road near Kyiv on 22 September 2021? Gunmen opened fire on a vehicle carrying Serhiy Shefir, an official close to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, near the village of Lisnyky, outside the capital.
The driver of the car was wounded. The attack was deemed an assassination attempt against Shefir.
Ukrainian reports from the day described him as the first aide to the president, and said unknown attackers had fired on his car. The shooting put a figure from the president's immediate circle at the centre of an armed attack just outside Kyiv.
