(BBC News) A suspect in the fatal shooting of prominent Ukrainian politician Andriy Parubiy has been arrested, the country’s president Volodymyr Zelensky has said.
The 54-year-old parliamentarian was killed by an attacker posing as a courier in the western city of Lviv on Saturday, sparking a manhunt.
Ukraine’s interior minister Igor Klymenko said in a statement issued in the early hours of Monday morning that the suspect had been detained in the western Khmelnytskyi region.
Klymenko said the preliminary investigation had found the killing had been “carefully prepared” with Parubiy’s travel schedule and route mapped out, as well as an escape plan.
He added that Ukraine’s national police force would provide further details later.
In a social media post, Zelensky said he had spoken to chief prosecutor Ruslan Kravchenko, who advised that the suspect had given an initial testimony.
“Urgent investigative actions are currently underway to establish all the circumstances of this murder,” he added, while also thanking law enforcement and prosecutors for “working around the clock”.
