Andrij Parubij: Ex-parliamentary chief of Ukraine shot

Former Ukrainian parliamentary chief Andrij Parubij was killed in the west of the country in the city of Lwiw (Lemberg) according to the authorities. The Ukrainian President Wolodymyr Selenskyj spoke on platform X of a “terrible murder” of the 54 -year -old MP, who had also been chairman of the parliament in Kiev in the past.

Selenskyj said the investigation into the crime and the search for the perpetrator. He was informed about the crime by Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko. Selenskyj expressed his condolences to the members of the politician. Media reported that the MP from the LWIW region had been killed with several shots. Accordingly, a courier of a delivery service is said to have fired the shots on a bike. There was initially no official confirmation for this.

Parubij, born in 1971, was President of the Parliament from 2016 to 2019. During the ProWestliche Revolution on the independence place in Kiev, he also appeared as the commander of a tent camp and leader of the organization “Self -Defense Maidan”. 2014 – in the year of the Probest Protests in Ukraine – he held the post of Secretary of the National Council for Security and Defense of Ukraine.

The Russian political scientist Sergej Markow, who was close to the Kremlin, described Parubij as one of the organizers of the “mass murder” in Odessa on May 2, 2014 when several pro -Russian activists died in the fire of the trade union house. “He was literally an insane,” Markow wrote near Telegram. He was responsible for the death of many people after the Ukrainian leadership in 2014 had taken against the Russian -speaking population in the course of the fall of the Mosauf -Reunde President Viktor Janukovych.

In Odessa, several dozen people, mainly government opponents, were killed in street battles between Ukrainian nationalists and loyal demonstrators in and around the union building in the port city. In March, the right -wing extremist Demjan Hanul, who had mocked the victims, was shot in Odessa. The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg also condemned the Ukrainian authorities in March for the bloody riots and the fire disaster in Odessa.

The ultra -nationalist politician INNA FANION also died last year at an assassination attempt in LWIW. Farion, who also had trouble with the Ukrainian judiciary because of her hostile statements, was injured by a head shot in front of her house in July last year. The 60-year-old, who at times also had a member of parliament from the right-wing nationalist party Swoboda in the top Rada in Kiev, died in the hospital a little later, according to the authorities. At that time, the authorities also pursued a possible Russian trace.