Overview

• President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said a suspect was detained in the Khmelnytsky region and has given an initial statement, with further details to be released after ongoing procedures.
• Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko described the attack as carefully prepared, citing surveillance of Parubij’s movements, a fixed route, and a planned escape.
• Authorities are reviewing surveillance footage circulated by media, while reports that the shooter posed as a delivery courier on an e‑bike remain unconfirmed.
• Investigators are pursuing multiple lines of inquiry and have not ruled out a Russian link, according to regional police statements.
• Parubij, 54, a Maidan leader and speaker of the Verkhovna Rada from 2016 to 2019, was shot multiple times in public in Lviv on August 30.