{"id":45388,"date":"2025-09-01T22:26:36","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T22:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/disguised-gunman-who-assassinated-prominent-ukraine-politician-is-linked-to-russia-kyiv-says\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T22:26:36","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T22:26:36","slug":"disguised-gunman-who-assassinated-prominent-ukraine-politician-is-linked-to-russia-kyiv-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/disguised-gunman-who-assassinated-prominent-ukraine-politician-is-linked-to-russia-kyiv-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Disguised gunman who assassinated prominent Ukraine politician is linked to Russia, Kyiv says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>Kyiv on Monday said Russia was linked to the <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/ukraine-politician-killed-andriy-parubiy-gunman-reported-disguise\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">weekend assassination<\/a><\/span> of a pro-Western Ukrainian politician after the <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/andriy-parubiy-murder-suspect-arrested-zelenskyy-says\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">arrest of a suspect<\/a><\/span> alleged to have carried out the shooting disguised as a courier.<\/p>\n<p>Andriy Parubiy, a former speaker of parliament and leading figure in Ukraine&#8217;s pro-European protest movements of 2004 and 2014, was shot dead on Saturday in the western city of Lviv, near EU and NATO member Poland.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the suspect, whose arrest was announced early Monday, shot Parubiy eight times in broad daylight before fleeing the scene. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We know that this crime was not accidental. There is a Russian trace in it,&#8221; national police chief Ivan Vygivsky said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ivan.vyhivskyi.npu\/posts\/pfbid02v9RW9FpgrRZ7GAd2AQb3ms5aS7amVQ9qVegjAWBuuVXFYn2Kmx2ocvwrs9fvoXLSl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">social media post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Vygivsky attached t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo?fbid=1889189231636569&amp;set=pcb.1889200611635431\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wo photos<\/a> of the arrest, showing a shirtless man being apprehended by officers in military uniform in what appeared to be an apartment.<\/p>\n<p>Sources inside Ukraine&#8217;s law enforcement agencies <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cvgn2ry9510o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">told CBS News partner BBC News<\/a> that the attacker had dressed to look like a worker from delivery company Glovo. The company said it was &#8220;deeply shocked&#8221; by the crime and would cooperate fully with an investigation.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/09\/01\/f6b17355-809b-457a-a70d-7b7f4e03f225\/thumbnail\/620x465\/450021c31f14028a454cae69fdf006e1\/arrest-541786542-1889189244969901-8114857121423199558-n.jpg#\" alt=\"arrest-541786542-1889189244969901-8114857121423199558-n.jpg \" height=\"465\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/09\/01\/f6b17355-809b-457a-a70d-7b7f4e03f225\/thumbnail\/620x465\/450021c31f14028a454cae69fdf006e1\/arrest-541786542-1889189244969901-8114857121423199558-n.jpg 1x, 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prosecutor Ruslan Kravchenko, he added: &#8220;The suspect has given an initial testimony. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Klymenko said dozens of police officers and security officers had been involved in the arrest in the Khmelnytsky region of western Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I will only say that the crime was carefully prepared: the schedule of the deceased&#8217;s movements was studied, the route was laid, and an escape plan was thought out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Some earlier tributes from Ukrainian officials to Parubiy, who was still a member of parliament, hinted at Russian involvement.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" 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former Ukrainian parliamentary speaker Andriy Parubiy, who was killed this morning, lies on the ground in Lviv, Ukraine August 30, 2025.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                Roman Baluk \/ REUTERS<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Since Russia&#8217;s\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/ukraine-crisis\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">invasion of Ukraine<\/a><\/span>\u00a0began in 2022, both sides have accused each other of\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/russian-general-killed-car-bomb-near-moscow-yaroslav-moskalik\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">assassinations\u00a0<\/a><\/span>of political and military figures.<\/p>\n<p>Russian state media said Parubiy has been wanted by Russian authorities since 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Parubiy, who had studied history, had campaigned for Ukraine&#8217;s independence from the Soviet Union.<\/p>\n<p>He was also a major supporter of the use of the Ukrainian language over Russian.<\/p>\n<p>During the Maidan protests of 2014, he was a &#8220;commander&#8221; of opposition self-defense forces.<\/p>\n<p>The demonstrations led to the ouster of Ukraine&#8217;s pro-Kremlin leadership and precipitated a Moscow-backed separatist uprising in the east of the country.<\/p>\n<p>That same year, Ukrainian media said he survived an assassination attempt by grenade.<\/p>\n<p>After the ousting of then Ukrainian leader Viktor Yanukovych, who fled to Russia, Parubiy served on the National Security and Defense Council for several months.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, one of Ukraine&#8217;s security top service members,\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/ukrainian-spy-agency-officer-killed-kyiv-reports-ivan-voronych\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Colonel Ivan Voronych<\/a><\/span>,\u00a0 was killed in a bold daylight attack in 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