Andriy Parubiy, a Ukrainian politician who was previously the speaker of the parliament, was killed in a shooting, announced on August 30 the governor of the Lviv region Maksim Kozitsky.

Earlier in the day, the National Police announced that a politician had been killed following a shooting in a western Ukrainian city.

Irina Herashchenko, an MP from the European Solidarity party, later confirmed that Parubiy, a prominent politician who played an important role during Euromaidan, was killed.

Andriy Volodymyrovich Parubiy (1971-2025) was a Ukrainian nationalist politician, best known as one of the key figures during the Euromaidan revolution, that is, in the first months of the conflict with pro-Russian separatists.

Parubij began to engage in politics towards the end of the USSR, as one of the supporters of Ukrainian nationalism, i.e. the movement for independence.

He stood out as one of its most radical activists, and in 1991, together with Oleg Tjahnibok founded the Social-Nationalist Party of Ukraine (SNPU) which, considering its iconography and program, is often cited as neo-Nazi.

⚡️ BREAKING: Ex-parliament speaker shot dead in Lviv.



Andrii Parubii, a Ukrainian politician who previously served as the parliament speaker, was shot dead, Lviv Oblast Governor Maksym Kozytskyi reported on Aug. 30.https://t.co/KQvKCUWCkF— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) August 30, 2025

Since 1998, he led Patriots of Ukraine, a paramilitary formation of the SNPU.

In 2004, he left the SNPU and the Patriots of Ukraine, and was one of the most prominent participants in the Orange Revolution.

In 2007, he became one of the leading figures of Our Ukraine, the party led by the then pro-Western president Viktor Yushchenko. At the beginning of February 2012, he left that party and joined Batkivshchina led by Julia Tymoshenko.

From December 2013 to February 2014, Parubij was at the head of the Euromaidan demonstrations, that is, he coordinated the"protection forces" of the demonstrators.

After the coup, he was appointed head of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, a body that, among other things, coordinated the activities of the Ukrainian army, police and security services against the rebels.

He resigned from that position on August 7, 2014, which he never explained, saying"that is not done in war". In September 2014, before the Rada elections, he became one of the founders of the People's Front party, which gathers"hawks" in the Ukrainian government.