Lviv, Ukraine — Former Ukrainian parliamentary speaker Andriy Parubiy was shot dead in the western city of Lviv, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy confirmed on Saturday.
“Ukraine’s Minister of Internal Affairs Ihor Klymenko and Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko have just reported the first known circumstances of the horrendous murder in Lviv. Andriy Parubiy was killed. My condolences to his family and loved ones. All necessary forces and means are engaged in the investigation and search for the killer,” Zelenskiy wrote on X.
Parubiy, 54, served as Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine’s parliament, from 2016 to 2019. Earlier, he was appointed as Secretary of the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine in 2014 following the Euromaidan protests and the revolution that year, a post he held until his resignation in August 2014.
According to Ukraine’s public broadcaster Suspilne, Parubiy was assassinated on August 30 by a gunman disguised as a delivery courier on an e-bike.
Authorities have launched a large-scale investigation, with security forces mobilized to track down the perpetrator.
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