Klimenko said that the perpetrator was arrested in the Khmelnytskyi region. Parubiy was shot in Lviv. This means that the killer fled to another administrative part of the state, where he was tracked down. Lviv is less than 250 kilometers from Khmelnytskyi, the capital of the region of the same name. It is not yet clear whether the killer was detained directly in this city.

The Interior Minister noted on Telegram that he would not provide many details for now, but together with Zelensky, he promised to inform about the details as soon as possible."I will only say that the crime was thoroughly prepared. The perpetrator studied the schedule of (Parubý's) movements, mapped out a route and thought out an escape plan," Klimenko noted.

The head of the Ministry of the Interior emphasized that police and secret service agents were able to track down the perpetrator within 24 hours of the murder, while only 36 hours passed from the killing of Parubý to the arrest of the murderer.

The former head of parliament was shot dead by a man dressed as a courier on Saturday around 12 noon. He ran up to Parubiy from behind, who was walking on the sidewalk, and fired seven or eight shots. The politician died at the scene, and doctors were unable to revive him. Shocked relatives told Ukrainian media that Parubiy had gone to the gym and then planned to return home. The killer escaped on an electric bicycle.

Immediately after the murder, investigators did not want to speculate about a possible motive for the murder, but several politicians and the media pointed out the possibility that Russia could be behind Parubý's assassination.

Parubiy served as the Speaker of the Parliament from April 2016 to August 2019. In 2004, he was one of the leading figures of the Orange Revolution in Kiev. He also later belonged to the camp of democratic political forces when Ukrainians opposed the regime of President Viktor Yanukovych. After his overthrow in 2014, Parubiy became Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine.