Overview

• At a court hearing captured on video by Ukrainian media, the 52-year-old suspect admitted shooting Andrij Parubij and said he sought a quick verdict and a swap that would allow him to travel to Russia to search for his son’s remains.
• The defendant rejected any cooperation with Russian intelligence and said he acted out of personal revenge after his son died at the front, adding that Parubij was targeted because he lived nearby.
• Ukraine’s police and the SBU have pointed to a possible Russian trace and described the attack as carefully planned, including a courier disguise, an e-bike and multiple shots reportedly totaling eight.
• The suspect allegedly discarded the weapon, changed clothes and fled before being detained roughly 36 hours later in the Khmelnytskyi region, according to police accounts.
• Parubij was buried in Lviv before hundreds of mourners, including senior figures such as Petro Poroshenko, Ruslan Stefanchuk, Yulia Tymoshenko and Vitali Klitschko, underscoring his role as a prominent pro‑European politician.