A former Ukrainian parliamentarian and professor of linguistics has been shot dead in the city of Lviv in western Ukraine. She was shot on Friday evening local time by an unknown perpetrator and later died at the hospital.
Iryna Farion, 60 years old, was briefly a parliamentarian for the ultra-nationalist party Svoboda. She drew attention when she criticized Ukrainian soldiers who spoke Russian.
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyj said on Saturday that he had been informed about the murder and that all possible leads are being investigated, "including those that lead to Russia".
Farion was one of the most vocal defenders of the Ukrainian language. After her controversial statements about Ukrainian soldiers, she lost her position as a professor at the university in Lviv, but was reinstated after a court decision.
