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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Clea Skopeliti

Investigation launched into ‘horrific murder’ of Ukrainian politician in Lviv

Andriy Parubiy attends a parliamentary session in Kyiv
Andriy Parubiy speaking in the Ukrainian parliament in May 2019. He was shot dead in the western city of Lviv on Saturday. Photograph: Valentyn Ogirenko/Reuters

A Ukrainian former parliamentary speaker was shot dead in Lviv on Saturday, authorities said, as European foreign ministers met to discuss increasing pressure on Moscow to end its war against Ukraine.

Andriy Parubiy, a member of parliament who served as parliamentary speaker from 2016 to 2019 and a key figure in Ukraine’s 2013 pro-European Maidan revolution, was shot dead, prosecutors said. A murder investigation has been launched and the president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, condemned the killing as a “horrific murder”.

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