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Russia continues battle connected Ukrainian cities
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Sunday that Ukrainian officials arrested a fishy successful the shooting decease of erstwhile parliament talker and salient pro-Western person Andriy Parubiy.
Zelenskyy said successful a connection connected X that a idiosyncratic was taken into custody aft shooting Parubiy successful the metropolis of Lviv connected Saturday. No details astir the fishy oregon a motive for the sidesplitting were released, but that the fishy made "initial statements."
"The indispensable investigative actions are ongoing. I person instructed that the disposable accusation beryllium presented to the public," Zelenskyy said.
FILE - Ukrainian lawmakers perceive to parliament talker Andriy Parubiy, center, during a parliament league successful Kiev, Ukraine, Monday, Nov. 26, 2018.
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Parubiy, 54, was a lawmaker from the Lviv portion who participated successful Ukraine's Orange Revolution successful 2004 and led self-defense unpaid units during the Maidan protests of 2014, which forced pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych from office. He was parliament talker from 2016 to 2019.
Local media reported Parubiy was changeable aggregate times by a gunman dressed arsenic a courier connected an e-bike, according to CBS News partner BBC News.
Zelenskyy condemned it arsenic a "horrific murder" and said "all indispensable forces and means" would beryllium utilized successful the investigation.
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