Although he was an enemy of Russia who many important people likely wanted dead for a while, taking him out right now might impede a speculative US and/or intra-fascist plot to replace Zelensky.
The public assassination of leading Ukrainian fascist Andrey Parubiy has many pointing the finger at Russia and not without good reason. He was infamously implicated in the Maidan sniper provocation at the height of 2014’s Color Revolution, the Odessa Trade Union fire shortly after, and the onset of the then-Ukrainian Civil War in Donbass via his brief role as Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council. Parubiy was therefore an enemy of Russia and many there likely wanted him dead for a while.
At the same time, however, RT political analyst Nadezhda Romanenko put forth a compelling counterview arguing that his assassination was actually an inside job. According to her, Parubiy’s experience in co-organizing EuroMaidan and his alliance with former President Petro Poroshenko made him a natural enemy of Zelensky, who fears being overthrown. He also knows too many secrets about post-Maidan Ukraine so having him take them all to the grave would fill many co-conspirators with relief.
These are valid points that shouldn’t be dismissed as a “conspiracy theory”. After all, a Ukrainian Neo-Nazi assassinated their country’s top “linguistic nationalist” in July 2024 due to a perceived ideological slight, which interestingly happened in Lvov just like Parubiy’s assassination. That city is a hotbed of Ukrainian fascism where various factions are known to occasionally war against one another. It therefore wouldn’t be too difficult in theory for Zelensky’s clique to put out a hit against Parubiy there.
Likewise, a rival fascist faction might have simply taken him out on their own for whatever their ideological or business-related reason might have been, thus making it difficult to conclude who’s responsible. Even though his suspected assassin was detained less than 48 hours after the assassination, any potential claims by that individual of having been contracted by Russia should be treated with the utmost skepticism due to Ukraine’s use of torture to extract “politically convenient” confessions.
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