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Ukrainian Former Parliamentary Speaker Parubiy Shot Dead in Lviv

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Ukrainian Former Parliamentary Speaker Parubiy Shot Dead in Lviv

Ukraine’s Parliamentary Speaker Andriy Parubiy walks out of a voting booth at a polling station during a presidential election in Kiev, Ukraine March 31, 2019. Viacheslav Ratynskyi/Reuters

KYIV—Ukrainian former parliamentary speaker Andriy Parubiy was shot dead in the western city of Lviv on Saturday and a search was under way for the killer.

The Prosecutor General’s office said a gunman had fired several shots at Parubiy, killing him on the spot. The attacker fled and a manhunt was launched, it said.

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