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.
When both sides want you dead don't walk down the street like that.