Ukrainian President’s High Aide Survives Assassination Strive

MOSCOW—A senior adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was the target of an assassination strive, authorities acknowledged Wednesday, including to a host of challenges going by method of the nation’s chief at home and out of the country.

Serhiy Shefir, a aged producer of Mr. Zelensky’s comedy display sooner than he grew to turn into president, escaped unharmed, but his driver was wounded and is for the time being hospitalized after larger than 10 bullets hit the auto, police acknowledged. Investigators are probing the case as an attempted abolish, officials acknowledged.