Ukrainian then-Parliamentary Speaker Andriy Parubiy attends a parliament session in Kiev, Ukraine, May 16, 2019. Mr. Parubiy was shot dead on Saturday.

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.

Parubiy, 54, was a member of parliament, had been parliamentary speaker from April 2016 to August 2019, and was one of the leaders of protests in 2013-14 calling for closer ties with the European Union.

He was also secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defence Council from February to August 2014, a period when fighting be

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