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A top Ukrainian politician has died after being gunned down in the western city of Lviv.
Andriy Parubiy, a former parliamentary speaker, was shot dead on Saturday in the city’s Sykhovsky district by a gunman disguised as a delivery driver, who later fled the scene on a bike, according to local media.
Sickening footage shows the killer waiting for Parubiy behind a car.
When Parubiy passes him, the gunman follows him and begins to fire bullets into his head and back before fleeing the scene.
The 54-year-old’s death was confirmed today by Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky on X.
‘Minister of Internal Affairs Ihor Klymenko and Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko have just reported on the first known circumstances of a horrific murder in Lviv. Andriy Parubiy has been killed.
‘My condolences to the family and friends.’
The search for the assassin is ongoing, he added, but did not provide any further details.
Ukrainian politican Andriy Parubiy was murdered on Saturday in the city of Lviv
Sickening footage shows the killer waiting for the former parliamentary speaker partly concealed next to a car
The gunman was captured on video running away after shooting his victim
Police did not name the victim, but confirmed the shooting in a statement, adding that he died at the scene from his injuries.
A murder investigation has been launched, involving officers from the National Police, the Lviv region police and the Security Service of Ukraine.
Parubiy was a senior figure in European Solidarity, the political party led by former President Pedro Poroshenko, now the main opposition party to Zelensky’s ruling party, Servant of the People.
He was also a prominent participant in Ukraine’s 2013-2014 revolution and served as a parliamentary speaker from 2016 to 2019.
In 2014, Parubiy was victim to an assassination attempt after an unknown attacker threw a grenade at his feet, but he was spared after the explosive device rolled under a car.
He was seen as an enemy by Russia.
Parubiy’s murder comes after unidentified gunmen shot dead a former Ukrainian politician outside a school in a wealthy suburb of Madrid earlier this year.
The assassin fled the scene on a bike, according to local reports
A murder investigation has been launched following the shooting on Saturday
Andriy Portnov, 51, was previously a senior aide to a pro-Russian former Ukrainian president, Viktor Yanukovich, who was in a 2014 popular uprising.
Police reached the scene after receiving calls about a man with gunshot wounds on the street outside the American School of Madrid, in the Pozuelo de Alarcon suburb west of the capital.
‘Several persons shot him in the back and the head and then fled towards a forested area,’ an Interior Ministry source said.
When emergency services arrived they found Portnov dead with at least three gunshot wounds, a spokesperson said.
Portnov left for Russia in 2014 and faced investigations in Ukraine over accusations of treason and embezzlement.
He was targeted with European Union sanctions, although those and the charges were later dropped.