About Andrii Parubii
Andriy Volodymyrovych Parubiy (Ukrainian: Андрій Володимирович Парубій; 31 January 1971 – 30 August 2025) was a Ukrainian politician and a member of the Ukrainian Parliament from 2007 until his assassination in 2025, and served as its chairman from 2016 to 2019. Parubiy was born in the Lviv region to a family with long traditions of Ukrainian nationalism. In the late 1980s, he engaged in pro-Ukrainian political activism and was elected to the Lviv regional council in 1990. He co-founded the Social-National Party of Ukraine the following year. Being a regional politician during the 1990s, Parubiy distanced himself from far-right political organizations in 2004 and actively participated in the Orange Revolution. In 2007, he was elected to the Ukrainian Parliament on the Our Ukraine political ticket. During Euromaidan, he was in charge of the Maidan self-defense, commanding more than ten thousand people by February 2014. After the victory of the revolution, he was appointed Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, a position from which he oversaw the initial stages of the Russo-Ukrainian War. In August 2014, Parubiy stepped down from the position and later he was voted into the Parliament on the ticket of the People's Front. He was elected first as deputy chairman of the Verkhovna Rada and later, in 2016, as its chairman. During his tenure, he supported Ukrainian integration into the NATO and the EU. Parubiy was described by the BBC as a politician of the national-democratic camp. In 1991, he founded the Social-National Party of Ukraine (SNPU) together with Oleh Tyahnybok. After its victory, he joined the newly created Our Ukraine party from which he was elected into the Lviv regional council in 2006 and to the Verkhovna Rada during the 2007 parliamentary elections.
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