The President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky has emerged with “no serious injuries” from a car collision in Kyiv on Wednesday.
According to a statement from the president’s press secretary, “a car collided with the car of the President of Ukraine and escort vehicles.”
According to CNN, medics accompanying Zelensky gave emergency aid to the car’s driver and transferred him to an ambulance, it said.
“The president was examined by a doctor, no serious injuries were found,” the statement added.
Earlier on Wednesday, Zelensky visited newly liberated Izium in the northeastern region of Kharkiv, five days after the country’s forces recaptured the city.
Photographs on the Facebook page of an army unit showed Zelensky at a ceremony in the main square to raise the Ukrainian flag over the city’s administrative building. Hanna Maliar, the Deputy Minister of Defense, was also present.