According to CCTV News, the reporter of the main station learned that on the morning of August 30 local time, Ukrainian political activist and former speaker of the Verkhovna Rada (parliament) Andrei Parubi was shot and killed in Lviv.
Ukrainian President Zelensky said in a post on his official social platform that he had received a preliminary report on the shooting of Parubi. He said that the police and other departments are currently tracking down the killer.
According to reference sources, Ukrainian President Zelensky condemned this as a "crazy murder", according to the report, Zelensky said that he would thoroughly investigate Paruby's murder.
Source: Visual China
Parubi is a well-known Ukraine politician. He served as Speaker of the Ukraine Parliament from 2016 to 2019 and was an important supporter of the pro-European "Orange Revolution" in 2004 and the "Square Revolution" in 2014.
Parubi, 54, "died at the scene of his injuries," police said. The police also said that the gunman is still being searched for, and the motive of the murder is still unclear.
Local media reported that the shooting took place at noon, Parubi was shot several times and died at the scene.
Meanwhile, in recent days, Russia and Ukraine have engaged in fierce fighting in the Donetsk region in the Red Army city, which is the Ukrainian name of Pokrovsk, and in places such as Konstantinovka.
The Russian Defense Ministry released a video on the 29th saying that the Russian army used "hail" rocket launchers to strike Ukrainian positions in the direction of the Red Army City. Russia's Tass news agency released a video on the 29th saying that the Russian army launched strikes on some Ukrainian targets near Konstantinovka.
Russian Defense Minister Belousov said that the Russian army has accelerated its advance on the front lines this year. At the beginning of this year, the Russian army was able to control 300 to 400 square kilometers of land per month, and now it has reached 600 to 700 square kilometers per month. Under Russian strikes, 62% of key enterprises in Ukraine's military-industrial complex have been damaged. The Ukrainian army has lost more than 340,000 people this year alone.
Uzbekistan has no response to the above statement from Russia at present.
The General Staff of the Ukraine Armed Forces reported on the 30th that a total of 172 battles occurred in the front line areas on the 29th. In the direction of Pokrovsk, the Ukrainian army stopped 50 Russian attacks. The General Staff of the Ukrainian Army said on the 29th that Russian troops have launched air strikes on many places in the past day, including Druzhkovka, Konstantinovka and other places in the Donetsk region.
The Ukrainian army's "Dnipro" combat group and the "Phoenix" drone unit under the Ukrainian State Border Guard Service respectively released videos on the 29th saying that they were attacking the Russian army in the direction of Pokrovsk.
Ukrainian President Zelensky said on the 29th that the current situation on the front line is basically controllable, and the situation in the direction of Pokrovsk is the most severe. The Russian army has gathered as many as 100,000 people in this direction and is preparing for offensive operations.
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