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What followed the Lviv killing of Andriy Parubiy
Summary
A look back at 2 September 2025, three days after the shooting of a sitting MP and former parliamentary speaker in western Ukraine.
What did Ukraine know on 2 September 2025 about the killing that had shaken Lviv three days earlier? The core of the case was already in place: Andriy Parubiy, a sitting member of parliament and former speaker of the Verkhovna Rada, had been shot dead in the city on 30 August 2025.
Parubiy was 54. The attack took place at around 10:35 am local time on Yefremov Street in Lviv. Reports at the time described the attacker as an unknown gunman, and a manhunt for the suspect was under way in the hours that followed.
A suspect in custody
By 1 September, a suspect had been arrested in Khmelnytskyi Oblast. That meant that by 2 September 2025 the search for the gunman was no longer the central question. The matter had moved from a manhunt to the work that follows an arrest.
The case stood out because of who the victim was. Parubiy had led the Ukrainian parliament and was still a serving deputy when he was killed, in a western city far from the front line.
The Ledger's account of that day therefore rests on a short set of established points: the identity of the victim, the place and approximate time of the shooting, and the detention of a suspect in a different region by 1 September.
