The suspect in the murder of Parubia gave the first testimony

A man detained on suspicion of murdering the ex-speaker of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Andriy Parubiy gave his first testimony, Volodymyr Zelensky said. Earlier, he announced the arrest of a suspect.

"There is the first testimony of the suspect. Currently, further urgent investigative actions are being carried out to establish all the circumstances of this murder," Zelensky wrote in his telegram channel, referring to the report of Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko.

Parubiy died on August 30 on one of the streets in the Sikhovsky district of Lviv. He was shot several times by a killer in the form of a courier of the Glovo delivery service, who then put the gun in his bag and left on an electric bike. After Parubiy's death in Rada was informed that he had asked for protection six months before the murder, but was refused.

The suspect in the murder was detained 36 hours after the crime was committed, said Interior Minister of Ukraine Ihor Klimenko. He noted that the murder was carefully prepared — "the schedule of movements of the deceased was studied, the route was laid, an escape plan was thought out."

Andriy Parubiy is a Ukrainian politician, an active participant in the Orange Revolution and Euromaidan, from 2016 to 2019 he was the speaker of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, RBC reminds.