Officials have said that former president of Ukrainian Parliament Andrey Parubi has been shot dead in the western city of Liviva.
Uncomfortable footage about shooting, shows a gunman to a gunman who is dressed as a courier, who reaches the porbie on the road and holds a weapon, as he follows him before he runs away. A huge manhunt is now running for the suspect.
Ukrainian President Volodimier Zelansky described the Saturday’s attack as a “terrible murder” and expressed condolences to Parubi’s family.
54 -year -old Parubi, Ukraine’s Euromadon Mass increased prominently during the protest, which advocated close relations with the European Union and brought down former Russian supporter Victor Yanukovich in 2014.
A special operation, codenamed siren, is now launched by Ukrainian authorities that aims to track below and arrest the suspected shooter.
“All necessary forces and means are being deployed,” Zelansky said in a statement.
Ukraine’s prosecutors said “an unknown gunman fired several shots on the politician” and that Parubi “died on the spot”.
BBC sources in Ukraine’s law enforcement agencies said that seven shell casing were later found on the spot.
The source also said that the attacker was designed to look like a courier for the delivery company Glovo. In the video of the incident, the suspect can be seen carrying a yellow delivery bag.
The attacker is also reported to be e-bike.
The Parubiy was a decisive person in the Euromadon movement, which began after refusing to sign an association agreement with the European Union, which began.
He organized and coordinated the “self-defense” of the ground-Armed teams of demonstrations protected the huge tent camp in the heart of the capital Keev.
He was injured several times during a clash with Ukraine’s riot police.
After Yanukovich’s expulsion, he became the Secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council, during a period when Russia -Sashastra separatists began fighting in Eastern Ukraine – and when Russian President Vladimir Putin canceled the South Crime Peninsula.
After the full -scale invasion of Russia in Ukraine in 2022, Parubi joined the regional defense of Ukraine.
He was a legalist in the current Parliament of Ukraine.
Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Andree Sibiha described Parubi as a patriot and politician, who made a major contribution to the defense of freedom, freedom and sovereignty of Ukraine “.
Sibiha said: “He was a person who is correctly in the books of history.”
Former President Petro Poroshenko said Parubi’s murder was “a bullet fired in Ukraine’s heart”.
“Andree was a great man and a true friend. That is why they take revenge, this is what they are afraid,” he wrote on Telegram, pointing to Parubi’s contribution to the construction of the Ukrainian army.
