Andriy Parubiy

Andriy Volodymyrovych Parubiy (Ukrainian: Андрій Володимирович Парубій; 31 January 1971 – 30 August 2025) was a Ukrainian politician and a member of the Ukrainian Parliament from 2007 until his assassination in 2025, and served as its chairman from 2016 to 2019.

Parubiy was born in the Lviv region to a family with long traditions of Ukrainian nationalism. In the late 1980s, he engaged in pro-Ukrainian political activism and was elected to the Lviv regional council in 1990. He co-founded the Social-National Party of Ukraine the following year.

Being a regional politician during the 1990s, Parubiy distanced himself from far-right political organizations in 2004 and actively participated in the Orange Revolution. In 2007, he was elected to the Ukrainian Parliament on the Our Ukraine political ticket. During Euromaidan, he was in charge of the Maidan self-defense, commanding more than ten thousand people by February 2014.

After the victory of the revolution, he was appointed Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, a position from which he oversaw the initial stages of the Russo-Ukrainian War. In August 2014, Parubiy stepped down from the position and later he was voted into the Parliament on the ticket of the People's Front. He was elected first as deputy chairman of the Verkhovna Rada and later, in 2016, as its chairman. During his tenure, he supported Ukrainian integration into the NATO and the EU. Parubiy was described by the BBC as a politician of the national-democratic camp.

He was assassinated in Lviv on 30 August 2025 by a gunman who fled on an electric bike.

Andriy Parubiy was born in Chervonohrad, Lviv region, on 31 January 1971. His ancestors served in the Austro-Hungarian military and, after its collapse, in the Ukrainian Galician Army that fought in the Polish-Ukrainian War from 1918 to 1919. His uncles fought for the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, and after World War II, the whole family was sent to Siberia for ten years. His father was active in the Ukrainian independence movement and made a political career after 1991, reaching the position of deputy mayor of Lviv. On his mother's side, his family is from the Kharkiv region.

In 1994, Parubiy graduated from the history department of University of Lviv and received a diploma with the specialization as historian. In 2001, he completed a program in political science and sociology at the graduate school of the State University Lviv Polytechnic.

Andriy Parubiy started his career in 1987 as laboratory technician in the archaeological expedition of the Institute of Social Sciences [uk] In 1988, he co-founded the organization "Heritage", which looked after the graves of Ukrainian Insurgent Army soldiers and defended anti-Soviet protesters. Parubiy was arrested by the authorities of the Ukrainian SSR for organizing an unsanctioned rally in 1989. In 1990, he participated in an election for the local council. The day before the vote, he was arrested and learned of his successful election to the Lviv regional council while under arrest.