Andriy Parubiy, a Ukrainian MP and former speaker of the country's Parliament, was shot dead this Saturday in Lviv , in the west of the country, confirmed the President of Ukraine, Volodimir Zelensky.
A few hours after the incident, a security camera video was released showing the moment Parubiy was approached by an individual, who shot and killed him on the spot.
“Ukrainian Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko and Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko have just announced the first known circumstances of the horrific murder in Lviv. Andriy Parubiy was killed. My condolences to his family and loved ones,” Zelensky wrote on his X social media account.
"All necessary forces and resources are being used in the investigation and search for the killer," he added.
In its official statement, the Ukrainian police stated that “law enforcement agencies are establishing the circumstances of the murder of a public and political figure in Lviv “.
“Investigative and operational groups of the Main Investigation Department of the National Police and the Lviv Region Police, the Security Service of Ukraine and other relevant bodies are involved in the disclosure and investigation,” the statement said.
“Today, around noon, Police Station 102 received a report of a shooting in the Sykhiv district of Lviv. As a result of his injuries, the victim died instantly. It was determined that the deceased was a well-known public and political figure born in 1971,” he said.
Finally, he noted that"law enforcement is taking all necessary measures to establish the identity of the shooter and his whereabouts. All details will be disclosed in the manner and to the extent provided by criminal procedure law."
Parubiy had participated in recent pro-European movements in Ukraine, first in the “Orange Revolution” of 2004 and then in the Maidan Revolution in 2014.
Zelensky warned that Russia is preparing a new large-scale offensive.
Before the news of Parubiy's murder broke, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned that Russia was preparing to launch a new large-scale offensive and said that the troop concentration in the vicinity of Pokrovsk was about 100,000 soldiers, putting that region of Ukraine in grave danger.
“The troop concentration in the region has reached 100,000 soldiers, according to the data we have this morning ,” Zelensky said in a meeting with journalists, according to the Interfax Ukraine agency.
The Russians, according to the president, are preparing a new attack, but Ukraine is ready.
Pokrova is a mining town in the south of the Donetsk region and before the war had about 60,000 inhabitants, but it has lost population because many people have left due to the constant Russian siege.
In recent weeks, the region around the city has become the epicenter of fighting, with the Russians so far unable to capture the area, which is a major transportation hub.
Meanwhile, authorities in the Zaporizhzhia region reported a series of Russian missile and drone attacks that left at least one person dead and more than 20 injured.
