Thousands from across Ukraine pay their respects at Iryna Farion's funeral in Lviv

Espreso reports.

Many people from various cities across Ukraine came to Lviv to pay their last respects to former MP, linguist and professor at Lviv Polytechnic Iryna Farion.

After the church service, the procession proceeded to Lychakiv Cemetery. Traffic along the route in Lviv will be blocked. People are holding flags, posters with quotes from Iryna Farion, and photographs of the linguist.

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In the centre of Lviv, law enforcement officers and dog handlers are patrolling the Saints Peter and Paul Garrison Church.

Farion's murder

• 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.