Former Ukrainian parliament speaker shot dead in Lviv

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy condemns sidesplitting of salient person Andriy Parubiy arsenic ‘horrendous murder’.

A salient Ukrainian person and erstwhile parliament talker has been changeable dormant successful occidental Ukraine, officials said, arsenic a hunt was nether mode to find the attacker.

Andriy Parubiy, who besides antecedently served arsenic caput of Ukraine’s National Security and Defence Council, was killed successful the metropolis of Lviv connected Saturday.

The Prosecutor General’s bureau said a gunman had fired respective shots astatine Parubiy, sidesplitting him “on the spot”. The attacker fled, and a manhunt was launched, it said.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy condemned the sidesplitting arsenic a “horrendous murder” and offered his condolences to Parubiy’s household and loved ones.

“All indispensable forces and means are engaged successful the probe and hunt for the killer,” Zelenskyy wrote connected societal media.

Parubiy, 54, was a subordinate of parliament and had served arsenic parliamentary talker from April 2016 to August 2019.

He was besides 1 of the leaders of mass protests successful Ukraine successful 2013 and 2014, calling for person ties with the European Union.

Ukraine’s Minister of Internal Affairs Ihor Klymenko and Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko person conscionable reported the archetypal known circumstances of the horrendous execution successful Lviv. Andriy Parubiy was killed. My condolences to his household and loved ones.

All indispensable forces and means…

— Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) August 30, 2025

Ukrainian officials did not instantly merchandise a imaginable motive for the fatal shooting.

The politician of Lviv, Andriy Sadovyi, said uncovering the slayer and establishing the circumstances of the onslaught was of utmost importance.

“This is simply a substance of information successful a state astatine war, where, arsenic we tin see, determination are nary wholly harmless places,” helium wrote connected Telegram.

Tributes poured successful from colleagues successful parliament and the government, praising Parubiy’s publication to Ukraine’s combat for sovereignty and independency during the 2013-2014 protestation movement.

Former President Petro Poroshenko said connected Telegram that his sidesplitting was “a changeable fired astatine the bosom of Ukraine”.

“Andriy was a large antheral and a existent friend. That is wherefore they instrumentality revenge, that is what they are acrophobic of,” helium said, lauding Parubiy’s publication to gathering retired the Ukrainian army.

Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha besides described Parubiy arsenic “a patriot and statesman who made an tremendous publication to the defence of Ukraine’s freedom, independency and sovereignty”.

“He was a antheral who rightfully belongs successful the past books,” Sybiha wrote connected Telegram.

A constabulary serviceman guards the tract of Parubiy’s sidesplitting successful Lviv, Ukraine, August 30 [Roman Baluk/Reuters]