A Former Ukrainian Congresswoman Shot in the Street by an Unknown Assailant

Ex-Ukrainian Lawmaker ASSASSINATED

Iryna Farion, 60, was wounded in the attack on Friday in the western city of Lviv, and she later passed away in a hospital from her wounds. Her attacker left the scene, and he is currently the target of a manhunt. According to Ukrainian officials, the attack is being investigated and is being handled like an assassination.

 

 

“We are working on all of the surveillance cameras that are available, interviewing witnesses, and doing surveys in other districts. On his official Telegram channel on Saturday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated, “We are looking into all leads, including the one that points to Russia.

 

 

From 2012 to 2014, Farion was a member of the Ukrainian parliament. She gained notoriety for her efforts to encourage Ukrainian officials who could speak Russian to speak Ukrainian. In the early days of the full-scale assault, she controversially chastised Russian-speaking soldiers of Ukraine’s Azov unit for defending the port city of Mariupol.



Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko, who will be in charge of the inquiry in Lviv, stated that police are looking into the possibility that the attack was motivated by “personal animosity” toward the former MP because of her political and social activity.

 

According to Governor Oleh Syniehubov on Saturday, a Russian missile strike on infrastructure in the northeastern Kharkiv area of Ukraine resulted in at least two fatalities and three injuries.

 

Additionally, four people have died as a result of the Russian strike on the city of Mykolaiv on Friday, according to confirmation from Ukrainian officials. Oleksandr Sienkevych, the mayor of the city, stated that one of the victims was a child.

 

Zelenskyy claimed on social media that a projectile had struck a playground adjacent to an apartment building during the Mykolaiv walkout.

 

“With its terror, Russia demonstrates daily that ‘pressure’ is insufficient,” the speaker stated. “Life-destroying activities must end. We require fresh approaches to bolster our defenses. Russia needs to sense global power.”

 

The Air Force of Ukraine reported on Saturday that 13 of the 17 drones and four missiles that Russia had launched overnight had been shot down.

 

According to Governor Filip Pronin, thousands of people in the Poltava region of central Ukraine are without running water or electricity as a result of the attacks. Russia has been attacking Ukraine’s energy infrastructure nonstop, which has resulted in nationwide outages.

 

The eastern Donetsk region’s towns and villages have seen Kyiv’s forces evacuate due to a brutal Russian assault in recent months. Russia is intensifying its attacks on two recent targets: the city of Pokrovsk and the mining town of Toretsk.

 

On Saturday the Russian Defense Ministry declared that it had shot down 26 Ukrainian drones over the southern Rostov region of Russia, several hundred kilometers (miles) from the battle line. According to the report, three other drones were destroyed over the Belgorod region and one over the Smolensk region. There were no confirmed casualties.