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KHARKIV - Kharkiv Mayor Hennadiy Kernes, seriously wounded in the afternoon of April 28, was flown to Israel for treatment overnight on April 29, Kharkiv City Council information and PR department director Yuriy Sydorenko said.

“Israeli doctors came late at night on Monday – they highly assessed the work of our doctors but strongly recommended moving him for treatment to Israel. Israeli doctors reached a conclusion that the mayor was transportable. The plane took off from the Kharkiv airport at 3:20 a.m.,” Sydorenko told Interfax.

Around noon on April 28 Kernes was wounded during a jog along Belgorod Highway in Kharkiv.

The mayor was brought to emergency hospital unconscious, surgery institute director Valeriy Boyko said. Kernes underwent surgery, the bleeding was stopped but his condition was deemed serious.

A criminal case under the Ukrainian Criminal Code Article 115 Part 15 – attempted murder – has been opened over the attack on Kernes.