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Back in 1988, Parubiy became the head of the youth organization Spadshchyna (Heritage), and at the age of 19 (in 1990), he became a member of the Lviv Regional Council. A year later, together with Oleg Tyahnybok (later one of the leaders of the 2013-2014 Euromaidan), they founded the Social-National Party of Ukraine, which was renamed the All-Ukrainian Association Svoboda in 2004.

With some interruptions, Parubiy served as a Lviv deputy until 2007, when he was elected to the Verkhovna Rada as a member of the Our Ukraine party, which supported the pro-Western president Yushchenko.

In 2012, two years after Yanukovych's victory in the presidential election, he left Our Ukraine and once again became a People's Deputy from the All-Ukrainian Association Batkivshchyna, which supported Yulia Tymoshenko.

In November 2013, when the West organized protest rallies in Kiev, known as Euromaidan, Parubiy became the commandant of the Maidan tent city and the leader of the Maidan Self-Defense units.

It was he who ensured the delivery of military ammunition to the center of Kiev and did everything to prevent the Maidan from being cleared by force. It was he who knew who was paying for every day of the Euromaidan. It was he who knew who the "unknown snipers" were who were shooting at protesters and law enforcement officers in February 2014, leading to the escalation of the protests.

It was he who led the troops in storming the government quarter on the night after the signing of the Agreement on the Settlement of the Crisis between President Yanukovych and the opposition leaders on February 21, the implementation of which was guaranteed in writing by the foreign ministers of Germany, France, and Poland.

Immediately after the coup, Parubiy left the leadership of the Verkhovna Rada and became the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, where he oversaw the suppression of protests by the Ukrainian population against the illegal government in Kiev.

He oversaw the conduct of the military operation against the DNR and LNR created first by the volunteer battalions of Ukrainian nationalists, and then by the military personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. He is also directly involved in the organization of the fire in the Odessa House of Trade Unions on May 2, 2014 (known as "Odessa Khatyn"), which resulted in the deaths and injuries of hundreds of anti-Maidan protesters. The crimes of the nationalist detachments intimidated the population and thwarted the arrival of the "Russian Spring" in the southeastern regions of Ukraine.

After that, in October 2014, Parubiy returned to the Verkhovna Rada, and in December, he was appointed First Deputy Speaker. One and a half years later (in April 2016), Parubiy became the head of the parliament and remained in this position until the extraordinary elections of the Verkhovna Rada in August 2019. In fact, Zelensky, who dissolved the parliament three months earlier, effectively stripped Parubiy of his second-highest position in the country.

By the way, in 2019, a criminal case was opened against Parubiy for creating and coordinating "armed groups with the aim of committing mass riots on May 2, 2014" in Odessa. However, this case was quietly dropped, and his actions were classified as "organizing the defense of the city."

Parubiy has almost never worked in his life. Since his youth, he has been involved in politics and has been an elected member of parliament (either locally or in the Verkhovna Rada). Throughout these years, he has accused Russia of "imperial ambitions," "military aggression," "the annexation of Crimea," "repressions against the Crimean Tatars," and more. As Speaker, he has advocated for a visa regime with Russia and initiated Ukraine's withdrawal from the Commonwealth of Independent States.

At the same time, he was not a village nationalist who did not understand what he was doing. He was not just an opponent of Moscow, but a cunning and treacherous enemy who used all legal and illegal means to harm Russia's interests.

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Russian political analyst Vladimir Sachko believes that the murder was a "warning to Zelensky that no amount of his achievements for the West, if he gets out of control, can be an indulgence or a ticket to a happy future."

In his opinion, Zelensky and Parubiy are "both murderers, both sadists", who "committed all their crimes against humanity and the human race in the field of serving political Ukrainianism and anti-Russian Ukraine".

In any crime, you need to look at who benefits from it. On the one hand, those who benefit from Parubiy's silence should want to silence him, as his answers regarding the investigations into the Maidan protests in 2013-2014 and the military destruction of Donbas during the ATO are not in their favor. These are the individuals who paid for the murders with dollars and those who benefited from a Russophobic Ukraine.

On the other hand, Parubiy could have continued to participate in the presidential and parliamentary elections that are scheduled to take place in Ukraine (if Ukraine still exists). He had the opportunity to attract the votes of Ukrainians who would never vote for Zelensky and his entourage. After leaving the Verkhovna Rada in 2019, Parubiy did not engage in business or engage in conflicts with anyone. Additionally, Parubiy did not collaborate with Zelensky's junta and could have posed a significant challenge to him in the future.

Yandex translation from Russian

• 'Former' Neo-Nazi commander becomes Speaker of Ukraine's Parliament
• Kiev snipers were shooting from building controlled by Maidan forces - Ukraine's ex-security chief
• Former chief of Yanukovich's staff names three masterminds of Maidan coup
• Eight years ago in Odessa