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Former Ukrainian parliamentary speaker Andriy Parubiy has been killed in the western city of Lviv, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said 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 said on X.
Parubiy, who was 54 at the time of his death, served as the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada, the Ukrainian parliament, from 2016 to 2019. He previously served as Secretary of the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine, appointed after the Euromaidan protests in the 2014 Ukrainian revolution, until his resignation on August 7 the same year.
According to a report by Suspilne, he was shot dead on August 30 in Lviv by an assassin disguised as a delivery courier riding an e-bike.