The Ukrainian suspected having killed the vice president and former president of Parliament Andriï Parubiy on Saturday, acknowledged this murder, but denied any link with Russia and invoked a “personal revenge”, according to videos broadcast this Tuesday, September 2 by the Ukrainian media.
MP for the opposition, known for its role in the main proeuropean movements in Ukraine and once a figure in the Ukrainian nationalist movement, Andriï Parubiy was shot down to Lviv, in the west of the country on Saturday.
“Yes, I admit that I killed him,” said the suspect in the Court, identified by the press in the press as Mykhaïlo Stselnikov.
He denied the accusations of certain media according to which he had acted in order of Moscow and assured that, therefore, he had established a “personal revenge against the Ukrainian authorities” after the death of his son in the front.
Tributes to Kyiv and Lviv
“All I want is for the verdict to be done as quickly as possible” to ask to be part of an exchange of prisoners of war with Russia and “go and look for my son’s body,” he said.
This 52 -year -old man said he attacked the deputy simply because he lived in the same city as him. The Ukrainian police mentioned a “Russian track” without giving details.
After a tribute to kyiv the previous day, hundreds of people whose senior officials met Tuesday at the Lviv Center to present their condolences to the Andriï Parubiy family.
Andriï Saïthouk, 49 -year -old television presenter, said that seeing in Andriï Parubiy “the type of politician that is missing a lot in Ukraine.”
“It was the face and heart of (…) Ukrainian revolutions, which were essentially a movement for the independence of Ukraine,” he added.
In addition to three years of war, the Ukrainians and the Russians regularly accused murders, including political and military leaders.
Respected in Ukraine, Andriï Parubiy, who died at age 54, had been president of the Ukrainian Parliament from 2016 to 2019. He was a member of the Party of the former head of state Proeuropean Petro Poroshenko, an opponent of current power.
It is better known for its role in the main proeuropean movements in Ukraine: first, the “orange revolution” of 2004, then that of Maidan in 2014.
Previously a figure of the Ukrainian nationalist movement, Andriï Parubiy had also been in the 1990s, the founder of the Social-National Social Party of Ukraine, classified at the extreme right.
Source: BFM TV
