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August 31, 2025 | 07:51 pm
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - A salient person of Ukraine and erstwhile parliament speaker, Andriy Parubiy, has been changeable dead, officials said, arsenic a hunt was underway to find his attacker.
Andriy Parubiy, who antecedently served arsenic the caput of Ukraine's National Security and Defense Council, was killed successful the metropolis of Lviv connected Saturday, arsenic reported by Aljazeera.
The Ukrainian Prosecutor General's Office stated that an equipped antheral had fired respective shots astatine Parubiy and killed him "on the spot." The assailant fled, and a manhunt is ongoing, it said.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky condemned the sidesplitting arsenic a "horrendous murder" and expressed condolences to the household and loved ones of Parubiy.
“All indispensable forces and means are engaged successful the probe and hunt for the killer,” Zelensky wrote connected societal media.
He mentioned that Ukraine's Security Service, the country's main interior information agency, is progressive successful the probe and "instructed to guarantee that accurate, verified accusation beryllium shared promptly with the public."
Parubiy, 54, was a subordinate of parliament and had served arsenic the talker of the parliament from April 2016 to August 2019.
He was besides 1 of the leaders of the wide protests in Ukraine successful 2013 and 2014, which called for person ties with the European Union.
Ukrainian officials person not instantly released the imaginable motive for the fatal shooting.
Lviv Mayor Andriy Sadovyi stated that uncovering the perpetrator and establishing the inheritance of the onslaught is crucial.
“This is simply a substance of information successful a state astatine war, where, arsenic we tin see, determination are nary wholly harmless places,” helium wrote connected Telegram.
Tributes poured successful from colleagues successful parliament and the government, praising Parubiy's publication to Ukraine's conflict for sovereignty and independency during the 2013-2014 protestation movement.
Former President Petro Poroshenko said connected Telegram that his sidesplitting was “a changeable fired astatine the bosom of Ukraine.”
“Andriy was a large antheral and a existent friend. That is wherefore they instrumentality revenge, that is what they are acrophobic of,”he said, praising Parubiy's publication to gathering the Ukrainian army.
Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha besides described Parubiy arsenic 'a patriot and statesman who made a large publication to defending the freedom, independence, and sovereignty of Ukraine'.
'He is simply a fig worthy of enactment successful past books,' Sybiha wrote connected Telegram.
Gunman Flees connected Electric Bike
The shooting took spot astir midday connected Yefremova Street, adjacent Parubiy's residence, according to a analogous from the Ukrainian Service of RFE/RL astatine the scene. Law enforcement confirmed that the erstwhile parliament subordinate died instantly owed to his injuries. The shooter is inactive astatine large.
The Ukrainian Prosecutor General's Office announced that an probe into the execution has been launched, and the perpetrator is being sought connected charges of intentionally sidesplitting the salient politician.
Authorities recovered 8 slug casings astatine the transgression scene. Sources told reporters that the shooter was dressed arsenic a transportation courier and fled the country connected an electrical bike.
Roberta Metsola, President of the European Parliament, wrote connected X that she was “deeply shocked by the unspeakable murder,” portion Geoffrey Pyatt—a erstwhile US ambassador to Ukraine—said Parubiy was a "truly historical fig who played a pivotal relation successful gathering a antiauthoritarian and European Ukraine."
Parubiy was a salient governmental fig and a cardinal subordinate successful the 2013-2014 Revolution of Dignity successful Ukraine, besides known arsenic the Maidan Revolution. He served arsenic the seat of the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine's parliament, from 2016 to 2019.
Additionally, helium served arsenic the caput of Ukraine's National Security and Defense Council from February to August 2014, a captious play erstwhile warring broke retired successful eastbound Ukraine and Russia annexed the Crimean Peninsula.
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