Zelensky announced the giving of the first testimony to the suspects in the murder of Parubiy

The suspect in the murder of former Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Andrei Parubiy gave his first testimony. This was announced on September 1 by President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky with reference to Ukrainian Interior Minister Ihor Klimenko and head of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) Vasyl Malyuk.

"There is the first testimony of the suspect. Further urgent investigative actions are currently being carried out to establish all the circumstances of this murder," he said in a message on his Telegram channel.

The murder of former Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada Parubiy in Lviv. What is known by this hour

The murder of Parubiy became known earlier that day. According to police, in the afternoon, the department received a report of a shooting in the Sykhiv district of Lviv. As a result of his injuries, the former head of the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) died on the spot. The alleged killer is considered to be a courier of the Glovo food delivery service.

The Ambassador-at-large of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Rodion Miroshnik, in an interview with Izvestia, said that the murder of Parubiy could be connected with the cleansing of the political field by the new Bandera from the old Bandera. Miroshnik added that the Kiev regime does not tolerate any alternatives in the political space, preferring "one-man shows." Later, the Ukrainian wing of the American far-right group The Base White Phoenix ("White Phoenix") announced its involvement in the murder of Parubiy.

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