Thursday 15 September 2022 09:53 AM Video 'reveals aftermath of car crash that injured President Zelensky' trends now
Video has emerged that appears to show the aftermath of a car crash that injured Ukrainian President Zelensky overnight.
Footage that MailOnline has geo-located to Kyiv's Victory Square shows a badly-damaged Volkswagen Beetle in the middle of a street crossing with an injured man lying next to it, being treated by a mixture of medics and military personnel.
The man's head is being bandaged and he has blood spattered on his jeans, but is clearly breathing as men in military fatigues place a metallic blanket over him.
Zelensky's team said the president's motorcade was involved in a crash with a civilian vehicle in the capital around midnight Wednesday, and that the president was not seriously injured.
Video has revealed what is believed to be the aftermath of the car crash which lightly injured President Zelensky and wounded a second driver late on Wednesday
The crash happened in Kyiv's Victory Square and involved a Volkswagen Beetle (left) whose driver had to be taken to hospital in an ambulance
His medical team stopped to provide first aid to a civilian who was hurt, spokesman Sergiy Nikiforov added, before the injured person was loaded into an ambulance.
Nikiforov did not give details on the person's condition, and did not give any more details about how exactly the crash happened.
It appears the car in the video was heading west out of Kyiv when it was struck at the front on the driver's side.
The front quarter of the car is crumpled with the wheel bent underneath the chassis, while the driver's airbag has deployed.
Neither Zelensky nor his convoy of vehicles are visible in the footage.
News of the crash rattled nerves as Russia lashes out at Ukraine in increasingly desperate ways following its latest humiliation on the battlefield near Kharkiv.
Zelensky - a talisman of Ukrainian resistance to Russian aggression - survived multiple attempts on his life in the early days of the war but has existed in relative safety since Russia withdrew from Kyiv months ago.
If he were to be seriously hurt at this stage of the fighting, it would be a hugely symbolic moment
