Ukraine’s president says ‘necessary investigative actions ongoing’ after killing of former parliamentary speaker Andriy Parubiy
A suspect has been arrested over the murder of the former Ukrainian parliamentary speaker Andriy Parubiy, Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said.
“The suspect has given an initial testimony,” Zelenskyy, Ukraine’s president, said on the Telegram messaging app. “Urgent investigative actions are currently under way to establish all the circumstances of this murder.”
Parubiy, 54, was shot dead in the western city of Lviv on Saturday in what Zelenskyy called “a horrific murder” and a “matter of security in a country at war”.
He had been parliamentary speaker from April 2016 to August 2019, and was one of the leaders of protests in 2013-14 calling for closer ties with the European Union.
