LONDON– The Safety And Security Solution of Ukraine– the primary jobs of that include counter-intelligence procedures– is associated with the examination right into the Saturday murder of the previous audio speaker of the Ukrainian parliament, Head of state Volodymyr Zelenskyy claimed.
Andriy Parubiy, that chaired the Rada– Ukraine’s unicameral parliament– from April 2016 to August 2019, was fired dead by an unknown opponent in the western city of Lviv on Saturday.
In messages to social media sites, Zelenskyy called Parubiy’s fatality “a dreadful murder” and claimed the look for the criminal was continuous.
” Lots of sources are released– all that’s required,” the head of state claimed in a Saturday message to Telegram. “The criminal offense was, regrettably, meticulously prepared. Yet every initiative is being made to resolve this criminal offense.”
Andriy Parubiy, that at the time was the audio speaker of Ukraine’s parliament, responds throughout a session of parliament in Kyiv, Ukraine, on May 22, 2019.
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Zelenskyy claimed he spoke to the head of the SBU, Vasyl Maliuk, regarding the event. “The Safety And Security Solution of Ukraine is taken part in the examination. I advised that confirmed details be without delay interacted to the general public,” he created.
Parubiy was a noticeable pro-European Union and pro-NATO political leader that was amongst the leaders of the 2014 Maidan Transformation, which saw a grassroots pro-Western demonstration motion fall pro-Russian Head of state Viktor Yanukovych.
After the change, Parubiy functioned as the assistant of Ukraine’s National Safety and Support Council in 2014, throughout which time Russian pressures confiscated Crimea and triggered dispute in the eastern Donbas area.
A law enforcement officer guards at the website of a murder of previous Ukrainian legislative audio speaker Andriy Parubiy in Lviv, Ukraine, on Aug. 30, 2025.
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ABC Information’ Oleskiy Pshemyskiy and Morgan Winsor added to this record.
