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Andrii Parubiy shot dead in Lviv - a "shot fired at the heart of Ukraine"

30 August 2025

The former speaker of the Ukrainian parliament, Andriy Parubiy, has been shot dead in the Ukrainian western city of Lviv.

Police received reports of the shooting in the Frankivsk district of Lviv, western Ukraine, at around midday local time on Saturday. Unconfirmed reports suggest he was shot multiple times by a gunman dressed as a courier on an e-bike.

Parubiy, 54, rose to prominence during Ukraine's Euromaidan movement, which advocated for closer ties with the EU and brought down pro-Russian former President Viktor Yanukovych in 2014.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky described it as a "terrible murder" and offered his condolences.

Parubiy was a pivotal figure in the Euromaidan movement, which began after the Ukrainian government refused to sign an association agreement with the EU in late 2013.

He later became secretary of Ukraine's National Security and Defence Council, during a period when pro-Russian separatists began fighting in eastern Ukraine - and when Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the annexation of the Crimea peninsula.

Following Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Parubiy joined Ukraine's territorial defence.

Ukraine's Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha described Parubiy as "a patriot and statesman who made an enormous contribution to the defence of Ukraine's freedom, independence and sovereignty".

Sybiha added: "He was a man who rightfully belongs in the history books."

Former President Petro Poroshenko said the killing of Parubiy was "a shot fired at the heart of Ukraine".

"Andriy was a great man and a true friend. That is why they take revenge, that is what they are afraid of," he wrote on Telegram, pointing to Parubiy's contribution to building the Ukrainian army.

Zelensky wrote on social media that Ukraine's interior minister Ihor Klymenko and Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko had first reported the news of Parubiy's death.

"All necessary forces and means are being deployed to investigate and find the killer," he said.

source: commonspace.eu with BBC (London) and agencies.

photo: Andrii Parubiy, assassinated in Lviv on 30 August 2025

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