Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has been involved in a car accident in Kyiv.

President Zelensky, who paid a surprise visit to the newly recaptured town of Izium on Thursday, a key logistics hub in the north-eastern Kharkiv region of Ukraine, was reported to have been checked by medics after a private vehicle crashed into his motorcade.

Spokesman Serhii Nykyforov said in a Facebook post on Thursday that Mr Zelensky walked away from the accident without serious injuries.

The driver of the other vehicle was taken to hospital in an ambulance for treatment.

Mr Nykyforov did not reveal when the accident occurred.

“A car collided with a car of the President of Ukraine and escort cars in Kyiv,” he said, adding the accident would be investigated.

“The president was examined by a doctor, no serious injuries were found.”

Medics accompanying Mr Zelensky gave the driver of the private car emergency aid and put him in an ambulance, Mr Nykyforov said.

Minutes after Mr Nykyforov’s statement, Mr Zelensky’s office released the video of his daily address.

In it, he thanked Ukraine forces for liberating a settlement in the eastern Donetsk region, the taking of “certain heights” also in an eastern area in the Lysychansk-Siversk direction and liberating two southern settlements.

According to information from Kiev obtained by DPA, the Ukrainian armed forces have liberated the village of Vysokopillya in the Kherson region.

The deputy head of the presidential office, Kyrylo Tymoshenko, published a photo of the flag being raised on his Telegram blog on Sunday. However, there were already reports in June about the recapture of this locality in the northern part of the region.

Mr Zelensky told a military meeting that Ukrainian flags were increasingly returning to places where they belonged.

“And there is no place for the occupiers in our country,” he said on Sunday, according to the presidential administration in Kiev.

He did not give details.

According to media reports, Ukrainian troops had also recaptured the village of Ozerne in the Donetsk region on Sunday. This information could not be independently verified.

At the end of August, Ukraine had started a military offensive to liberate the Kherson region from Russian occupation. Russian troops captured the region shortly after the start of the invasion on February 24.

Ukraine had declared that it would take back the territories and stop the Russian advance with the help of heavy weapons supplied by the West. The Russian Defence Ministry denies the Ukrainian successes.

– with AAP