A suspect in the fatal shooting of prominent Ukrainian politician Andriy Parubiy has been arrested, the country's President Volodymyr Zelensky has said.
The 54-year-old parliamentarian was killed by an attacker posing as a courier in the western city of Lviv on Saturday, sparking a manhunt.
Ukraine's interior minister Igor Klymenko said in a statement issued in the early hours of Monday morning that the suspect had been detained in the western Khmelnytskyi region.
Parubiy rose to prominence during Ukraine's Euromaidan mass protests, which advocated closer ties with the EU and brought down pro-Russian former President Viktor Yanukovych in 2014.
Klymenko stated that the preliminary investigation had found the killing to be carefully prepared with Parubiy's travel schedule and route precisely mapped out, in addition to an escape plan. He added that Ukraine's national police force would provide further details later.
In a social media update, Zelensky revealed he had spoken to chief prosecutor Ruslan Kravchenko, who indicated that the suspect had given initial testimony.
Urgent investigative actions are currently underway to establish all the circumstances of this murder, he added, while expressing gratitude to law enforcement and prosecutors for their tireless efforts.
Unverified footage purportedly showed a gunman dressed as a courier approaching Parubiy and drawing a weapon as he walked behind him.
Lviv police chief Oleksandr Shliakhovskyi shared that the assailant had fired about eight shots from a firearm.
Sources from Ukraine's law enforcement agencies revealed that the attacker had disguised himself as a delivery worker from the company Glovo, which voiced its shock at the incident and pledged full cooperation with the investigation.
Parubiy served as the speaker of the country's parliament from April 2016 to August 2019 and played a key role in the protests of 2013-14, advocating for closer ties with the European Union while organizing self-defense teams that protected the protest encampment in Kyiv.