Former Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Parubiy killed in Lviv

An unidentified gunman killed former Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Andriy Parubiy in the Sykhiv district of Lviv.

This was reported by the press service of the National Police of Ukraine.

"Around noon, 102 received a report of a shooting in the Sykhiv district of Lviv. The victim died on the spot as a result of his injuries. It has been established that the deceased was a well-known public and political figure born in 1971," the National Police said.

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy confirmed that the deceased was Andriy Parubiy.

"The Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Ihor Klymenko and Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko have just reported on the first known circumstances of the horrific murder in Lviv. Andriy Parubiy was killed," the President said.

Andriy Parubiy was born in Lviv region. He held various positions at different times:

• Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine from April 14, 2016 to August 28, 2019.
• Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine from February 27 to August 7, 2014.

He was a Member of Parliament of Ukraine in three convocations. He was a member of the SNPU (1994-2004), Nasha Ukraina (2004-2012), Front for Change (2012), Batkivshchyna (2012-2014), People's Front (2014-2019) and European Solidarity (since 2019). During the Euromaidan, he was the commandant of the Maidan Self-Defense.

In December 2014, an attempt was made on Andriy Parubiy near the Kyiv Hotel in Kyiv, when a man approached him and his companions about 30 meters away and threw a grenade in their direction, but missed - the grenade fell between the cars and the curb. The attacker was pursued by police officers who were near the hotel. During the chase, the attacker threw another grenade at the police. As a result, one of the police officers was injured in the leg and hospitalized.

Кирило Бойко