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Andriy Klyuyev resigned as head of the president's administration and was attacked after the resignation, his spokesman told the Kyiv Post. “He was shot at, and as far as I know he was wounded by not seriously. There is no danger to his life,” Klyuev's spokesman Artyom Petrenko said.

He also confirmed that Klyuyev’s house
was attacked, but could not provide details of the incident. Petrenko
said that Klyuev is currently in the hospital in Kyiv recovering from
the wound. He is not disclosing his exact location because he fears a
new attack.

Petrenko said that Klyuyev resigned on
Feb. 23, and delivered his letter of resignation in person. “I know
he resigned, and he resigned in person, so he saw the president,”
the spokesman said.

Vesti newspaper reported that Klyuyev
flew to Kharkiv in a presidential helicopter. But other Ukrainian
media reported that he resigned in Crimea, and was shot on the way
back to Kyiv. No independent confirmation of this information could
be obtained. The president’s location remains unknown.

The president, along with 49 other
undisclosed officials, are now on the nation’s wanted list of people
who are accused of mass murder in the past three months, when massive
demonstrations and clashes with police have been taken place in
Ukraine.

It’s not clear if Klyuyev is on this
list, but he has been linked by journalistic investigations and
leaked protocols of interrogation of former Kyiv Administrator
Oleksandr Popov to the first attack by police riot troops at peaceful
demonstrators on Nov. 30.

Klyuev, who was chief of the National
Security and Defense Council at that point, was promoted to head the president’s
administration on Jan. 24.