Ukraine Detains Suspect in Killing of Iryna Farion

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Ukraine Detains Suspect in ******** of Iryna Farion

The Ukrainian authorities detained a suspect on Thursday in the ******** of Iryna Farion, a divisive far-right Ukrainian politician who was shot ***** by a gunman last week in the western city of Lviv, a ****** that shocked the nation.

Ihor Klymenko, Ukraine’s interior minister, said in a

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that there was “sufficient evidence” that the suspect, whom he identified only as an 18-year-old man, had ******* Ms. Farion. He said the suspect had been arrested in his hometown, Dnipro, a large city more than 500 miles east of Lviv in eastern Ukraine.

Mr. Klymenko added that a preliminary investigation suggested that the suspect had worked with others to plan the ********. He added that the suspect, while preparing for the ******** for at least two months, had “rented at least three apartments in Lviv.” Mr. Klymenko did not rule out the possibility of Russian involvement.

Ms. Farion ***** on Friday after an unknown assailant shot her in broad daylight near her home in Lviv. Witnesses told Ukrainian news outlets that the ******* fired a single shot and quickly fled.

For nearly a week, the Ukrainian police had been searching for a suspect who had appeared on surveillance cameras and was described as a man in his 20s. Mr. Klymenko and President Volodymyr Zelensky said hundreds of security agents and investigators had been deployed to find him.

“They checked every corner along the gunman’s escape route” and searched about 250 acres of forest, Mr. Klymenko said of the police. “Eventually, the suspect was tracked down.”

The ******** last Friday of Ms. Farion, a former lawmaker and award-winning linguist, sent chills through the country, where there had been no high-profile killings since Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Given Mr. Farion’s controversial profile, some Ukrainians feared that her ****** would polarize Ukrainian society.

Ms. Farion was a highly divisive figure in Ukraine. She belonged to Svoboda, a hard-line nationalist party, and some Ukrainians despised her for her denunciation of Russian-speaking fighters in the Ukrainian army. Ukraine is a bilingual country, and many Ukrainians speak Russian, especially in eastern regions closer to Russia.

In November, the Ukrainian security services opened a ********* investigation into Ms. Farion’s statements. She was also fired from Lviv Polytechnic National University, where she taught.

Ms. Farion remained a respected linguist, and several thousand mourners attended her ******** on Monday in Lviv. Supporters described her as a true patriot and a pioneer of current efforts to promote the use of Ukrainian, once banned by the ******* authorities.

Political analysts and officials said it was crucial to conduct a swift and transparent investigation to keep rumors from spreading.

Yaroslav Yurchyshyn, the head of the Ukrainian Parliament’s committee on freedom of speech and a ******** politician,

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last week that the ******** could increase distrust of the Ukrainian police and pit rival political parties against each other. Like other Ukrainian officials, he suggested that Moscow might have been behind the ******** in an attempt to sow divisions.

On Thursday, the Ukrainian police

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they were examining unverified claims linking the ******** to a Russian neo-***** group.

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