{"id":145422,"date":"2021-09-23T11:42:01","date_gmt":"2021-09-23T03:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=145422"},"modified":"2021-09-23T11:42:01","modified_gmt":"2021-09-23T03:42:01","slug":"assassination-attempt-on-close-aide-to-ukrainian-president-fails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=145422","title":{"rendered":"Assassination attempt on close aide to Ukrainian president fails"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/497\/49749590.jpg\" width=\"\" height=\"\" alt=\"Serhiy Shefir, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's close aide\"><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Serhiy Shefir, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky&#8217;s close aide<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>KIEV, Sept 23 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; The car of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky&#8217;s close aide Serhiy Shefir was shot at just outside Kiev on Wednesday, in an apparent assassination attempt, according to the country&#8217;s police.<br><br>While the driver of the car was injured in the attack, Shefir himself was unharmed, despite more than 10 shots being fired at the vehicle.<br><br>The attack took place on the outskirts of the Ukrainian capital.<br><br>The attackers have not been identified and the reasons for the assassination attempt were initially unclear.<br><br>Shefir and Zelensky have been working together for years, even before Zelensky took office in 2019.<br><br>However, according to media reports, their relationship has deteriorated considerably of late. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Serhiy Shefir, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky&#8217;s close aide KIEV, Sept 23 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; The car of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky&#8217;s close aide Serhiy Shefir was shot at just outside Kiev on Wednesday, in an apparent assassination attempt, according to the country&#8217;s police. While the driver of the car was injured in the attack, Shefir himself [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":145426,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[209],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145422"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=145422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/145426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=145422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=145422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=145422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}