Ukrainian politician Andriy Parubiy was shot dead in Lviv on Saturday, Kyiv's president Volodymyr Zelenskyy confirmed on social media.
"My condolences to his family and loved ones," Zelenskyy wrote on social media, confirming the "horrendous murder" and assuring that the killer was being investigated in a full-fledged probe.
Ukraine’s Minister of Internal Affairs Ihor Klymenko and Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko have just reported the first known circumstances of the horrendous murder in Lviv. Andriy Parubiy was killed. My condolences to his family and loved ones.
— Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) August 30, 2025
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Following a shooting at noon today in the Frankivskyi district of the western Ukrainian city, the National Police had said that a political figure (then unknown) was shot, and died at the scene of the crime.
European Solidarity party lawmaker Iryna Herashchenko soon confirmed in a Facebook post that Parubiy had been the victim.
Expressing shock over his death, she claimed that Parubiy's killing was an act of "terrorism" over his pro-Ukrainian state position, blaming "our age-old enemy and terrorist, the Russian Federation".
На жаль, це правда. Наша команда шокована. Це терор. Наш друг, колега, брат, Андрій Парубій розстріляний у Львові. В...
Posted by Європейська Солідарність on Saturday, August 30, 2025
Notably, Parubiy played a prominent role in the EuroMaidan Revolution (Revolution for Dignity), a wave of mass protests in Ukraine against pro-Kremlin President Viktor Yanukovych, as per a Kyiv Independent report.
The event was primarily triggered by Yanukovych's 2013 refusal to sign the Association Agreement with the European Union (EU), and his choice to receive a loan from the Kremlin instead.
Parubiy's active participation in what soon turned into a revolution involved serving as the de facto commandant and head of the tent camp and the leader of the Maidan Self-Defense units.
The revolution ended in 2014 with Yanukovych fleeing to Russia in February 2014. Later that year, Russia annexed Crimea, which began the conflict in Eastern Ukraine.
Parubiy—widely cited as one of the founders of modern Ukraine—also had a brief stint as the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council, creating the new Ukrainian Guard, Army, and Defense Forces in 2014. He later served as a member of Ukraine's parliament from 2016-19.
The probe into Andriy Parubiy's death will be led by the National Police and the Ukraine's Security Service.
