{"id":52117,"date":"2025-08-31T19:31:02","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T23:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/zelenskyy-announces-arrest-in-shooting-death-of-pro-western-ukrainian-politician-andriy-parubiy\/31\/08\/2025\/"},"modified":"2025-08-31T19:31:02","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T23:31:02","slug":"zelenskyy-announces-arrest-in-shooting-death-of-pro-western-ukrainian-politician-andriy-parubiy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/zelenskyy-announces-arrest-in-shooting-death-of-pro-western-ukrainian-politician-andriy-parubiy\/31\/08\/2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelenskyy announces arrest in shooting death of pro-Western Ukrainian politician Andriy Parubiy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"\" data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">KYIV, Ukraine (AP) \u2014 President <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/volodymyr-zelenskyy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Volodymyr Zelenskyy;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Volodymyr Zelenskyy<\/a> said Sunday that Ukrainian officials arrested a suspect in the shooting death of former parliament speaker and prominent pro-Western politician Andriy Parubiy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Zelenskyy said in a statement on X that a person was taken into custody after shooting Parubiy in the city of Lviv on Saturday. No details about the suspect or a motive for the killing were released.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cThe necessary investigative actions are ongoing. I have instructed that the available information be presented to the public,\u201d Zelenskyy said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Parubiy, 54, was a lawmaker from the Lviv region who participated in Ukraine\u2019s Orange Revolution in 2004 and led self-defense volunteer units during the Maidan protests of 2014, which forced <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/general-news-8b795952e78a47a3beff026800eb508a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych<\/a> from office. He was parliament speaker from 2016 to 2019.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/zelenskyy-announces-arrest-shooting-death-224940849.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KYIV, Ukraine (AP) &mdash; President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Sunday that Ukrainian officials arrested a suspect in the shooting death of former parliament<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/zelenskyy-announces-arrest-in-shooting-death-of-pro-western-ukrainian-politician-andriy-parubiy\/31\/08\/2025\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52118,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/C1yVpXoiVpajT42nYz26Bg--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTEyMDA7aD04MDA7Y2Y9d2VicA--\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/ap.org\/d5be82066e73d6d0b4bc7e205f186c7f","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52117"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}