LONDON -- The Security Service of Ukraine -- the main tasks of which include counter-intelligence operations -- is involved in the investigation into the Saturday killing of the former speaker of the Ukrainian parliament, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said. Andriy Parubiy, who chaired the Rada -- Ukraine's unicameral parliament -- from April 2016 to August 2019, was shot dead by an unidentified assailant in the western city of Lviv on Saturday. In posts to social media, Zelenskyy called Parubiy's death "a horrific murder" and said the search for the perpetrator was ongoing. "Many resources are deployed -- all that's necessary," the president said in a Saturday post to Telegram. "The crime was, unfortunately, carefully prepared. But every effort is being made to solve this crime." Zelenskyy

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