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ARTICLE VIEW:
Prominent Ukrainian politician shot dead in ‘carefully planned
attack,’ police say
By Daria Tarasova-Markina and Catherine Nicholls, CNN
Updated:
11:30 AM EDT, Sat August 30, 2025
Source: CNN
A nationalist lawmaker was shot dead in a “carefully planned”
attack in the western city of Lviv on Saturday, officials said, with
the killer still on the loose.
Andriy Parubiy was shot several times with a short-barreled firearm,
police said, adding that the perpetrator, who fled the scene and has
not yet been identified, was “thoroughly prepared.”
Parubiy, who was a current MP and previously the chair of Ukraine’s
parliament, died before medical personnel arrived on the scene,
according to Maksym Kozitskiy, head of the Lviv region military
administration.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky said that the murder was
“carefully planned,” describing the politician’s death as a
“horrendous murder” on social media.
Video taken by Reuters shows forensic workers and police officers
working at the crime scene. A dead body can be seen on the ground, with
a pair of glasses and a bag lying next to the man’s right hand.
European officials including Roberta Metsola, the president of the
European Parliament, sent their condolences to Parubiy’s family and
the people of Ukraine.
Metsola said she was “deeply shocked by the terrible murder,” while
officials from Estonia and Poland also paid tribute to the victim.
Parubiy, who was 54 when he died, had been active in Ukrainian politics
since 1990, at a time when the Soviet Union was collapsing.
He co-founded the Social-National Party of Ukraine in 1991, though he
later left this group, and served as a member of parliament from 2007
until his death.
Parubiy participated in 2004’s Orange Revolution, where hundreds of
thousands of Ukrainians joined in peaceful protest following disputed
elections.
He was also a prominent figure in the Maidan Revolution, a movement
which began in November 2013 after then-President Viktor Yanukovych
refused to sign a trade pact with the European Union that had been
years in the making, opting instead for closer ties with neighboring
Russia.
During the revolution, which lasted three months, Parubiy was the head
of an enormous tent city established by thousands of protesters in
Kyiv’s central Independence Square, known as the Maidan.
He was later the secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense
Council during 2014. In 2019, Parubiy signed a bill to make the use of
the Ukrainian language mandatory in certain public sectors, calling it
a “historic day.”
Ukrainian member of parliament Iryna Gerashchenko called Parubiy’s
killing “terrorism,” describing him as a “colleague and friend, a
reliable comrade” who “was principled and decent, patriotic,
intelligent.”
Petro Poroshenko, a former Ukrainian president, said that Parubiy was
“shot dead by monsters in Lviv.”
“What can be said for certain is that these monsters are afraid, and
that is why they kill true patriots and strong people,” he wrote on
social media. “This crime is not just shots fired at a person. It is
a shot at the army. It is a shot at the language. It is a shot at
faith. It is a shot at the heart of Ukraine.”
This story was updated to clarify the position Parubiy held at
Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council, where he served as
its secretary.
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