Former Ukrainian parliament speaker Andriy Parubiy has been shot dead in Lviv, Ukrainian authorities have said.
Police received reports of the shooting in the Frankivsk district of Lviv, western Ukraine, at around midday local time on Saturday. It is unclear if the perpetrator has been arrested.
Parubiy, 54, rose to prominence as part of Ukraine’s Maidan movement, which advocated for closer ties with the European Union (EU) and brought down pro-Russian former president Viktor Yanukovych in 2014.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky described it as a “terrible murder” and sent his condolences.
It remains unclear who was behind the attack. Unconfirmed reports suggest Parubiy was shot multiple times by a gunman on an e-bike dressed as a courier.
Ukraine’s national police, Lviv Regional police, and the security service are investigating the killing.
In a statement, Zelensky wrote on Telegram: “The Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Ihor Klymenko and Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko have just reported on the first known circumstances of the terrible murder in Lviv. Andriy Parubiy was killed. My condolences to his family and friends.
“All necessary forces and means are being deployed to investigate and find the killer.”