According to Xinhua Agency, Andrei Parubi, former chairman of the Verkhovna Rada (Parliament) of Ukraine and former secretary of the National Security and Defense Commission, was shot and killed in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv on the 30th. Ukraine President Zelensky said on the same day that he would make every effort to thoroughly investigate the case.

According to Ukrainian media reports, the shooting took place at noon local time on the 30th.A man wearing outsourced uniforms and riding an electric bicycle shot Paruby on the street of Lviv and died on the spot after being shot by Paruby.The murderer escaped quickly after the crime, his identity and motives are unclear.

Lviv police chief Shliahovsky said at a news conference that the gunman fired about eight shots at Paruby and that the attack was "carefully planned".

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky data map

Zelensky posted on social media on the 30th that this was a terrible murder."We are using all necessary forces and means to investigate and search for the murderer."

Palubi, 54, is currently a member of the Ukrainian parliament, served as secretary of the National Security and Defense Committee in 2014 and as chairman of the Supreme Rada from 2016 to 2019.

Russian officials say Paruby¡¯s death was different

According to a report by Tass News Agency on August 30, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Zakharova said that she would not be surprised even if Ukraine accused the divers suspected of blowing up the Nord Stream gas pipeline of murdering Andrei Parubi, the former speaker of the Verkhovna Rada (parliament).

Zakharova commented on reports that Ukrainian Lviv police have not yet found the murder of Paruby, she said the attack was carefully prepared.

Russian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Zakharova data map

"It is not ruled out that Ukrainian divers suspected of carrying out the Nord Stream attack are now responsible for this case: one of these divers swam from Italy to the port of Odessa through the prison sewers," Zakharova wrote on the social platform Telegram.

In addition, another Tass news agency report on August 30 said that Rodion Mirošnik, the ambassador at large of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs responsible for the crimes of the Kiev regime, said thatThe killing of former Ukrainian speaker Andrei Parubi may be related to the purge of Ukrainian politics by the Ukrainian presidential team.

He said: ¡°The new nationalists are cleaning out the old guys, which is their usual style... given the inevitability of new elections, the Zelensky gang has even eliminated people like Paruby.¡±

Miroshnik pointed out that Parubi's relationship with former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko may have played a role in his death. He said,Parubi has long since turned to Poroshenko, and Zelensky is now waging a war against Poroshenko.

According to TASS news agency on August 30, Ukrainian governor Vladimir Saldo said the Kiev regime was trying to find "Russian traces" in the murder of former parliamentarian Andrey Paruby, although the death of the man was only the result of the internal struggle of the Ukrainian elite group.

Source: Xinhua News Agency, reference news

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The latest EU statement: If Russia does not compensate Ukraine for its losses, it will not want its frozen assets

Without much progress in the peace talks, the European Union has set up a counter for Russia¡¯s frozen foreign assets.

British Reuters reported that on August 30, local time, EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and former Estonian Prime Minister Kallas said at an informal meeting of EU foreign ministers in Copenhagen, Denmark that unless Russia fully compensates Ukraine for its losses, it is absolutely impossible to obtain the frozen assets.

"We cannot imagine that if a ceasefire or peace agreement was reached, these assets would be returned to Russia without being used for compensation." Kalas said at the meeting that the EU did not see any intention of Russia to compensate Ukraine for losses and "must formulate a solution strategy" to ensure that these frozen Russian assets can be used for Ukraine's defense and reconstruction after the conflict ends.

On August 30, local time, EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Kallas attended a press conference following an informal meeting of EU foreign ministers.

On the 28th, European Commission President Von der Leyen also issued a statement saying that the EU will soon impose further sanctions on Russia and is promoting the use of frozen Russian assets for the reconstruction of Ukraine.

According to the European Union, 210 billion euros (about 1.75 trillion yuan) of Russian assets are currently frozen, most of which (about 183 billion euros) are in custody of the Belgium-based European Clearing Bank (Euroclear). The ownership of these assets belongs to the Russian central bank.

According to the European edition of Political News Network, Ukraine faces a budget gap of €8 billion in 2026, and the EU is trying to provide funding for the country. According to a preparatory document, the European Commission intends to transfer frozen Russian assets into a "special purpose tool" for the defense and reconstruction of Ukraine after the conflict ends.

Reports said that "special purpose tools" may be established modeled after the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) and open to members of the Group of Seven (G7). Details are still to be worked out, but overall, the EU hopes to establish a mechanism that would give it greater control over the transfer of Russian assets to Ukraine to avoid member states within the EU using their veto power to return funds to Russia in a semi-annual sanctions renewal vote.

Furthermore, the EU intends to transfer frozen Russian funds to more risky investments in order to provide more funds to Ukraine, but this has raised new concerns within the EU. Valérie Urbain, chief executive of the European Bank for Settlements, said directly that European taxpayers would have to bear the losses resulting from this move if high-risk investments were to be lost.

There have been long-standing differences within the EU on how to deal with Russia's frozen assets. Countries such as Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, the three Baltic States bordering Russia, as well as Poland, have always advocated confiscating these assets and using them directly to aid Ukraine.

Kerli Veski, Deputy Foreign Minister for Legal and Consular Affairs at the Estonian Foreign Ministry, said: "We have heard that it is difficult to raise funds (from the national budgets and the EU budget) and we already have these frozen Russian assets, and the logical question is how we can use them and why not use them?"

The picture shows the European Clearing Bank, data map

But France, Germany, Italy and Belgium have repeatedly emphasized the importance of international law protection and financial stability and are firmly opposed to ¡°forced robbery.¡±

Speaking at the meeting on the 30th, Belgian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Prevo warned that the assets were strictly protected by international law and that "confiscating them would trigger systemic financial instability and seriously undermine market confidence in the euro". He also rejected European Union proposals to change the investment strategy of the assets, saying the economic and legal risks were too high.

Last year, the European Union and the G7 reluctantly reached a compromise solution in the debate, agreeing to keep part of the frozen Russian asset base unchanged, but convert a total of 45 billion euros in proceeds from their investments into loans to Ukraine. On this basis, the EU provided an additional loan of 18 billion euros to Ukraine.

But this part of the funds will be fully disbursed by the end of this year, and the European Union's own budget is also very tight this year, leading it to look for funds to support Ukraine. Ukraine expects that the budget shortfall in 2026 may be as high as 8 billion euros, and US President Donald Trump is gradually reducing US aid to Ukraine, which has caused the pressure on the European Union to increase sharply.

Trump has previously publicly said that the United States will change its policy towards Ukraine and no longer provide direct financial aid to Ukraine.

euronews pointed out on the 30th that there is almost no precedent in international law for confiscating and using the assets of foreign sovereign countries, and it is called the "legal minefield" of the European Union by many experts. Hungary had taken the European Council to court earlier this week, saying it violated EU law by assisting Ukraine through the "European Peace Fund" without Hungary's consent.

The judgment will be precedent, as if Hungary wins the case, the EU will no longer be able to provide aid to Ukraine under the framework of the "European Peace Fund", but if the Hungarian government loses, it means that in the future the EU can continue to ignore member states' opposition.

Fadeev, deputy director of the Press and Information Department of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said on the 13th that Russia has noticed that the European Commission has allocated a new batch of financial assistance to the Ukrainian government with the proceeds from freezing the assets of the Russian Central Bank, which is the West's response to Russia. The escalation of economic aggression in the hybrid war.

Fateyev responded that the West was trying to formulate new false claims to seize Russian assets or its management gains, but that could not change the criminal nature of its intentions. Russian President Vladimir Putin made a clear legal qualification for this behavior in the West, which is ¡°robbing.¡±