Klymenko said the preliminary investigation had found the killing had been “carefully prepared” with Parubiy’s travel schedule and route mapped out, as well as an escape plan.<\/p>\n
He added that Ukraine’s national police force would provide further details later.<\/p>\n
In a social media post, Zelensky said he had spoken to chief prosecutor Ruslan Kravchenko who advised that the suspect had given an initial testimony. <\/p>\n
“Urgent investigative actions are currently underway to establish all the circumstances of this murder,” he added, while also thanking law enforcement and prosecutors for “working around the clock”.<\/p>\n
Unverified footage, purportedly of the shooting, appeared to show a gunman dressed as a courier approaching Parubiy on the street and holding up a weapon as he walked behind him.<\/p>\n
At a news briefing on Saturday, Lviv police chief Oleksandr Shliakhovskyi said the attacker had “fired about eight shots from a firearm”.<\/p>\n
Sources inside Ukraine’s law enforcement agencies told the BBC that the attacker had dressed to look like a worker from delivery company Glovo. The company said it was “deeply shocked” by the crime and would co-operate fully with an investigation.<\/p>\n
Parubiy was the speaker of the country’s parliament from April 2016 to August 2019. <\/p>\n
He was one of the leaders of demonstrations in 2013-14 which called for closer ties with the European Union. He organised its “self-defence” teams who guarded the sprawling tent camp in the heart of the capital Kyiv during the protest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Klymenko said the preliminary investigation had found the killing had been “carefully prepared” with Parubiy’s travel schedule and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":388101,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7654],"tags":[2000,299,657],"class_list":{"0":"post-388100","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ukraine","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115126177898573394","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}