Hennady Kernes, the Mayor of Kharkiv in Ukraine was shot in the back Monday while cycling outside the city. He is being treated at an Israeli hospital. The Elisha hospital in the northern Israeli city of Haifa issued a brief statement saying the mayor’s surgeries appear to have been successful. One presidential candidate said the Mayor was targeted in an effort to destabilize the city in eastern Ukraine, a hub of 1.5 million people. Kharkiv is Ukraine’s second largest city. Mayor Kernes, who is Jewish, arrived in Israel early Tuesday morning accompanied by his wife and a team of Israeli doctors.
On it’s website, the Kharkiv City legislature confirmed Kernes was in Israel for treatment.
