A man suspected of murdering a deputy of the Ukrainian parliament Andrija Parubi confessed to the act and testified about contacts with Russia’s representatives, which he followed in an effort to find his missing son – a soldier of the Ukrainian army. Referring to sources in the Ukrainian investigative bodies, Radio Sloboda (RFE/RL) informed about it on Monday.
According to the Office of the Attorney General, the suspected suspected is 52-year-old man from Lviv in the west of Ukraine. He testified before the investigators that his son served in the Ukrainian army, and since 2023, when his unit was dislocated at Bachmut in eastern Ukraine, he is missing. In an effort to find him, the man began to monitor Russian social networks and made contact with the Russians who reportedly told him that his son was dead.
His Russian contacts also confided in the suspicion that he lives in Lviv, where Parubija has “several times”. RFE/RL, referring to the Ukrainian media and their own sources, said the Russian secret services of the detained Ukrainian blackmail, That the information about the place where his son’s body is found will be given in exchange for “the murder of any known Ukrainian politician”.
Detained testified that in preparation for the murder got a weapon, he bought equipment – The bike and helmet and fake documents were also available to the car he used for Parubii’s tracking. Parubij was the actor of the so -called. Orange Revolution in 2004 and Revolution of Dignity at the turn of 2013-14, during which He coordinated volunteer defense units of protest participants. In 2016-19 he was the chairman and later a member of the Ukrainian Parliament for the European Solidarity, founded by ex-president Petro Poroshenko. He was shot on August 30 in Lviv in the west of Ukraine.
