Ex-Ukraine MP and language campaigner shot dead in Lviv

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Ex-Ukraine MP and language campaigner shot ***** in Lviv

A former Ukrainian nationalist MP has ***** after being shot on the street in the western city of Lviv.

Iryna Farion caused controversy in 2023 by suggesting that “true patriots” of Ukraine should not speak Russian under any circumstances.

The 60-year-old linguistic professor’s ******** on Friday is being investigated and police say it may have been a targeted *******.

Her attacker has not been identified. Police say a power outage affected CCTV in the area.

Lviv Regional Governor Maksym Kozytskyi said on Telegram that Ms Farion ***** in hospital after the *********.

Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko said “this was not a spontaneous ********” and police were looking for a motive.

“We already have several versions. The main ones, I can say, are [linked to Farion’s] social and political activities and personal dislike,” he said in a statement via the Telegram message service.

“We do not rule out that the ******* has a commissioned character,” he added.

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said on Telegram that “any ********* must be condemned and whoever is guilty of this ******* must bear full responsibility”.

The hardline nationalist Svoboda (Freedom) political party Ms Farion was a member of blamed Russia for the ********.

“Moscow shoots in the temple for the Ukrainian language,” it said in a statement.

In 2023, Ms Farion said that true patriots of Ukraine should not speak Russian in any settings, including on the front lines, as it is the language of the aggressor country.

She described Russian as “the language of the ******, who ******, discriminates, insults and rapes me”, and added: “How crazy should you be to ****** in the Ukrainian army and speak Russian?”

Her words provoked a strong reaction in Ukraine at the time, with people accusing her of inciting hatred based on linguistic preferences.

She was dismissed from a university in western Ukraine and was investigated by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU).

In May, the Lviv Court of Appeal reportedly issued a ruling reinstating her to the position.

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