The former speaker of the Ukrainian parliament Andriy Parubiy has been shot dead in the western city of Lviv, officials have said.
Unverified footage, purportedly of the shooting, appears to show a gunman dressed as a courier approaching Parubiy on the street and holding up a weapon as he walks behind him, before fleeing. A huge manhunt is now under way for the suspect.
.........He added that the attack appeared to have been "very carefully planned"..........
Parubiy was a pivotal figure in the Euromaidan movement, which began after Yanukovych's government refused to sign an association agreement with the EU in late 2013.
He organised and co-ordinated Maidan's "self-defence" - armed teams of protesters who guarded the sprawling tent camp in the heart of the capital Kyiv.
He was injured several times during clashes with Ukraine's riot police.
After Yanukovych's ouster, he became secretary of Ukraine's National Security and Defence Council, during a period when Russia-armed separatists began fighting in eastern Ukraine - and when Russian President Vladimir Putin annexed the southern Crimea peninsula.
Following Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Parubiy joined Ukraine's territorial defence.
He had been a lawmaker in Ukraine's current parliament.
This is the SAME nazi agenda that the West are arming and financially supporting today in Ukraine.
https://youtu.be/0RIS-lfsHGk?si=DyB6cbZw85YTt0_D
Zelensky MOURNS Maidan coup frontman’s murder: 'eternal memory'
Says ‘crime was, unfortunately, carefully prepared’
Vows to find assassin who killed Parubiy
This is one of the reasons why Putin entered Ukraine in 2022. To save those Russians caught is Ukraine after the Maidan. To de MILITARISE and de NAZIFY Ukraine to PROTECT Russians in the Donbas. He WILL NOT give up those reclaimed areas where millions voted to come back under the Protection of Russia.
Nothing like little Z crying over your dead body, when little Z was the cause of your death.
Maybe the cabal took him out:
Spectre voice:
"You failed us, number one!"
My personal belief is he was working his own agenda and I found it odd that on a couple of occasions when he was supposed to be in attendance in and amongst the leadership as those present were bombed by the Russian's and when the dust clears he wasn't there to begin with...AZOV took him out they want nothing to do with political wannabes with their own ideas going forward.
Realistic.
When both sides want you dead don't walk down the street like that.
As a far-right leader, Andriy Parubiy played a critical role in pushing for the breakup of the Soviet Union in the late 1980s and early ‘90s. After the dissolution of the USSR in 1991, Parubiy founded the Social-National Party of Ukraine, a neo-fascist party that borrowed Nazi ideology and Third Reich imagery like the Wolfsangel, which was its official symbol. The SNPU banned non-Ukrainians and established a violently racist paramilitary group called the Patriot of Ukraine.
Scholar Anton Shekhovtsov noted in a 2011 research paper on the “creeping resurgence of the Ukrainian radical right” that, at its founding presentation ceremony in 1995, the SNPU proclaimed, “In view of the prospects of mass degradation of people and entire nations, we are the last hope of the white race, of humankind as such.” The neo-fascist party added, “We must resolutely separate ourselves from the North-Eastern neighbour” --- that is to say, Russia.
Parubiy led the Patriot of Ukraine for several years. As a standard bearer of his country’s ultra-nationalist forces, he forged friendly relations with neo-fascists like France’s Jean-Marie Le Pen, who once inscribed a polemic he wrote with a tribute to Parubiy.
In 2004, Parubiy left the SNPU and its paramilitary wing in an attempt to rebrand himself as a more respectable far-right politician. The record Parubiy left behind, however, left little doubt about his fascist worldview.
Among Andriy Parubiy’s most memorable published writings is a book called “View from the Right,” which depicts Parubiy on the cover in a Nazi-style uniform.
When asked in 2015 if he had reformed his extremist politics, Parubiy insisted his values remained unchanged.
“I don’t think he changed his views,” explained historian Grzegorz Rossolinski-Liebe in an email to AlterNet. Rather, he said, Parubiy has just “adjusted them to his current positions.”
“Yes, he is a far-right nationalist politician,” stressed Rossolinski-Liebe, who is a leading expert on far-right movements in Europe. The scholar noted that he interviewed Parubiy in 2006 for his landmark book on Stepan Bandera, a Nazi-collaborating Ukrainian fascist whose historical legacy has been rewritten by the new Western-aligned government, which lionizes Bandera as a hero.
In the book, Rossolinski-Liebe noted that Parubiy (also transliterated as Parubii) was the leader of the Society to Erect the Stepan Bandera Monument. Parubiy considers Bandera “the most important person in Ukrainian history,” the historian wrote.
McCain’s visit with Parubiy this year was not the first time he has junketed to Kiev to pay homage to the country’s far-right forces. During the Euromaidan demonstrations that rocked Ukraine in 2013 and 2014, McCain met with Oleh Tyanhbok, the leader of the Svoboda party who had been expelled from his former party for calling on his countrymen to do battle with the “Muscovite-Jewish mafia.”
Soon after the meeting, McCain and Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy appeared on Maidan Square next to Tyanhbok. “Ukraine will make Europe better and Europe will make Ukraine better!” McCain proclaimed before the crowd of thousands.
When Parubiy left the Social-National Party of Ukraine in 2004, the Nazi-style political group did some rebranding of its own. It was renamed Svoboda and changed its symbol in an effort to seem less directly tied to Nazism.
Historian Anton Shekhovtsov warned in his 2011 research paper that the victory of Svoboda in 2009 regional elections “seems to attest to the gradual revival of the radical right in Ukraine.” He was correct; Svoboda went on to play a key role in Euromaidan and the 2014 coup, and today is an influential force in mainstream Ukrainian politics.
Legitimizing Ukraine’s rising extremists, damning democracy
Since the U.S.-backed coup that ousted Ukraine’s democratically elected president, Viktor Yanukovych, Ukraine has lurched far to the right --- and closer to the West. Extreme right-wing nationalists occupy some of the most powerful roles in the new government, which also adopted a new constitution.
These far-right figures include Vadym Troyan, a leader of the neo-Nazi Patriot of Ukraine organization, who became police chief of the province of Kiev under Prime Minister Ansenei Yatsenyuk, a billionaire oligarch. Ukraine’s interior minister, Arsen Akakov, had personally commissioned neo-Nazi militias like the Azov Battalion, where Troyan served as deputy commander and whose members decorated their helmets with Nazi SS insignia and bore swastika tattoos and flags.
Far too many lives have been needlessly wasted. This war needs to stop!
Sounds like the good old Wagner Postal delivers again
“ during a period when Russia-armed separatists began fighting in eastern Ukraine” the commie BBC invert everything with their subtle lies and falsehoods.
I believe this was highly likely a Ukranian citizen, and I believe more of this will accelerate as they ignore efforts for peace.
They won’t be able to walk down the streets.
I'm surprised leaders haven't died of polonium 210 in the recent.
Or maybe they have and it has been quiet on the western front.
And shot again, for good measure?