A 52-year-old man suspected of Lviv described how he got the weapon and the equipment and watched Parubija before the murder itself.
A man suspected of murdering a member of the Ukrainian Parliament, Andrij Parubij, confessed to the act and also 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 detainee suspect is a 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.
Searching for a missing son
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 detainee Ukrainian blackmail that the information about the place where his son’s body was found would provide him in exchange for “murder of any known Ukrainian politician”.
The detainee testified that he received a weapon in preparation for the murder, bought his equipment – a bike and a helmet, and for false documents he also bought a car he used for Parubij’s tracking.
Parubij’s role in politics
Parubij was the actor of the so -called. The Orange Revolution in 2004 and the Revolution of Dignity at the turn of 2013-14, during which he coordinated the volunteer defense units of the 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.
