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SBU reserve colonel shares two versions who killed ex-MP Iryna Farion

Sofia Polonska
26 July, 2024 Friday
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Mykhailo Prytula, a military expert, reserve colonel of the Security Service of Ukraine, an expert on military counterintelligence, believes that the person who killed Iryna Farion acted on his ideological motives, but these motives were used

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He said this on the Espreso TV channel.

"I believe that the person who killed Iryna Farion acted on his ideological motives, but someone used these motives. The question is who used them and why.

Most likely, these motives were used either by the Russian special services or by some organization that claimed responsibility. That is, under the influence of Russian propaganda, they could have decided that Farion's activities were harmful to Russia and decided to kill the person without the consent of the Russian special services," Prytula suggested.

According to the military counterintelligence expert, there are national socialists in Russia who can act without the interference of Russian special services.

"It seems to me that the most likely scenario is that some organization of national socialists in Russia is acting on its own. This confirms that there are indeed national socialists in Russia who can act independently without the interference of the Russian special services. That is, I have two versions that have the right to exist. But both versions must be confirmed," Prytula said.

Murder of former Ukrainian lawmaker and linguist Iryna Farion 

  • On July 19, at about 19:30, an unknown assailant shot Iryna Farion in Lviv. The Lviv regional police confirmed this and reported that a special police operation was underway to detain him.

  • Iryna Farion was taken to St. Panteleimon Hospital of the First Territorial Medical Association of Lviv. The woman was in critical condition, late in the evening of July 19, doctors reported that she was in a brain coma and on artificial lung ventilation. Doctors fought for her life to the last.

  • On Espreso, Lviv City Council member Andirian Hutnyk provided details of the attempted assassination of Iryna Farion. He said that an unknown young man of 20-25 years old "was wearing some kind of hat". He fired a shot at her head with a firearm, the bullet hit her temple, the shot was from a gun without a silencer.

  • Subsequently, Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said that the attack on Iryna Farion was classified as an attempted murder. The Prosecutor General's Office noted that a pre-trial investigation had been launched.

  • President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy also reacted to the attempted murder of Iryna Farion. He said that all the necessary forces of the National Police of Ukraine and the Security Service of Ukraine are involved to establish the circumstances of this crime. "Obviously, any violence deserves only condemnation and everyone who is guilty of this attack must be held fully accountable," Zelenskyy wrote.
  • Former MP, linguist and professor at Lviv Polytechnic Iryna Farion died in hospital in Lviv. The shot to her head on the evening of 19 July was fatal.
  • On July 22, the former MP was buried in Lviv.
  • On July 25, a suspect in the murder of former MP and linguist Iryna Farion was detained in Dnipro. He is an 18-year-old man.

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