MOSCOW, September 1. /TASS/. A suspect in the murder of former Verkhovna Rada Speaker Andrey Parubiy has been taken into custody, Vladimir Zelensky said on his Telegram channel, citing the Ukrainian interior minister and the head of Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU).

According to Zelensky, Ukraine’s Interior Minister Igor Klimenko and SBU chief Vasily Malyuk have just informed him that the murder suspect had been detained. The investigation is underway and the suspect is being questioned.

Parubiy was shot and killed in Lvov, Ukraine, on August 30. The shooter fled the scene.

Parubiy was born on January 31, 1971, in the Lvov Region. He served as Ukraine’s security council secretary from February 27 to August 7, 2014, and as speaker of the Verkhovna Rada from April 14, 2016 to August 29, 2019. Parubiy was an active participant in the 2014 coup d’etat and was added to Russia’s sanctions list on November 1, 2018.