Former Ukraine parliament speaker laid to rest after assassination


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  • Tuesday, 02 Sep 2025

People attend a funeral ceremony for former parliamentary speaker Andriy Parubiy, who was murdered on Saturday, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Lviv, Ukraine September 2, 2025. REUTERS/Roman Baluk

LVIV, Ukraine (Reuters) -Ukrainians paid tribute to prominent politician Andriy Parubiy as he was buried on Tuesday after being gunned down in a daytime attack on Saturday, the second assassination in the western city of Lviv in just over a year.

As mourners streamed across cobblestone streets, the motives behind the killing of Parubiy, who played a key role in a pro-democracy uprising in 2014 that ousted a pro-Russian president, and later served as parliament speaker, remained unclear.

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