Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky said early Monday that a suspect had been arrested in the shooting of former speaker of parliament Andriy Parubiy, and had given an initial statement to investigators.

A statement from the country's interior minister suggested that Saturday's killing had been carefully planned, supporting Zelensky's remarks on Saturday when he said the shooting had been a deliberate plot.

Parubiy, a leading figure in the country's pro-European protest movements of 2004 and 2014, was shot dead in the western city of Lviv.

Zelensky said Internal Affairs Minister Igor Klymenko and security service chief Vasyl Maliuk had informed him of the arrest.

"I thank our law enforcement officers for their prompt and coordinated work," he said.

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