A suspect has been arrested for killing the Ukrainian politician Andriy Parubiy.
While details remain sketchy, President Volodymyr Zelensky announced the news on Monday, September 1—backed by a more in-depth statement from Ukraine’s interior minister—that a man had been detained in Khmelnytskyi.
Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko described the shooting, by an assailant disguised as a courier or delivery driver, as “carefully prepared.” Ukraine’s national police force and chief prosecutor Ruslan Kravchenko are overseeing the investigation.
Before becoming Speaker in the Ukrainian parliament (2016–2019), Parubiy played a role in the pro-European Union Euromaidan protests against former President Viktor Yanukovych. (Yanukovych’s former aide and colleague Andriy Portnov was himself shot dead in May this year).
Parubiy succumbed to his injuries after a fatal shooting on Saturday, August 30.
