The 18-year-old suspect was arrested in Dnipro – far away from the shooting in Lviv An 18-year-old man has been arrested in south-east Ukraine on suspicion of shooting dead Iryna Farion, a controversial former MP and linguistics professor. The teenager was tracked down in Dnipro, more than 900km (550 miles) from the western city of Lviv where the attack took place, after a murder hunt involving a large team of investigators. Farion, 60, was well known in Ukraine for prompting an outcry last year when she said that true Ukrainian patriots should not speak Russian in any setting because it was the language of the “aggressor country”. She was dismissed from her university after being accused of inciting hatred, before being reinstated by a court in Lviv this year. Her murder was treated as premeditated and although CCTV cameras failed to film the shooting outside her home, they reportedly did capture an image of the suspect, described as a skinny young man. (…) The motive for the attack was unclear and President Volodymyr Zelensky said detectives were considering all potential lines of inquiry, including a potential Russian role in the murder. One report suggested a neo-Nazi group linked to Russia may have been involved and a member of the nationalist Svoboda (Freedom) party claimed that whoever fired the shot had taken orders from Russia. There was no indication of Russian involvement, although pro-Kremlin propagandist Margarita Simonyan pointed out on social media that Farion had sought the “complete elimination” of Ukraine’s Russian-speaking population and had herself been eliminated
via bbc: Teenager held over murder of Ukraine nationalist
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siehe dazu auch:Alleged assassination video of former Ukrainian MP Iryna Farion appears online, neo-Nazi movement claims responsibility – photos A video has appeared on Russian Telegram channels that claims to show the murder of the former Ukrainian MP and linguist Iryna Farion, as well as the “manifesto of the Ukrainian Autonomous Revolutionary Racist”, the group which is allegedly claiming responsibility for the murder. Ukrainian law enforcement officers are currently investigating the video. The video was posted on Russian channels late on 24 July. It includes a short clip purporting to be of the murder at the end of a lengthy video titled “Manifesto of the Ukrainian Autonomous Revolutionary Racist”. The entire video is watermarked “NS/WP”. The segment allegedly showing Farion’s murder lasts for no more than 10 seconds. As the camera is covered up for most of the time, it is difficult to discern any details. However, screams and a gunshot can be heard, and the location of the incident is briefly visible. A video has appeared on Russian Telegram channels that claims to show the murder of the former Ukrainian MP and linguist Iryna Farion, as well as the “manifesto of the Ukrainian Autonomous Revolutionary Racist”, the group which is allegedly claiming responsibility for the murder. Ukrainian law enforcement officers are currently investigating the video. The video was posted on Russian channels late on 24 July. It includes a short clip purporting to be of the murder at the end of a lengthy video titled “Manifesto of the Ukrainian Autonomous Revolutionary Racist”. The entire video is watermarked “NS/WP”. The segment allegedly showing Farion’s murder lasts for no more than 10 seconds. As the camera is covered up for most of the time, it is difficult to discern any details. However, screams and a gunshot can be heard, and the location of the incident is briefly visible.