Kyiv on Monday said Russia was linked to the weekend assassination of a pro-Western Ukrainian politician after the arrest of a suspect alleged to have carried out the shooting dressed as a courier.

Andriy Parubiy, a former speaker of parliament and leading figure in Ukraine's pro-European protest movements of 2004 and 2014, was shot dead on Saturday in the western city of Lviv, near EU and NATO member Poland.

Police said the suspect, whose arrest was announced early Monday, shot Parubiy eight times in broad daylight before fleeing the scene.

"We know that this crime was not accidental. There is a Russian trace in it," said national police chief Ivan Vygivsky in a social media post.

Vygivsky attached a photo of the arrest, showing a shirtless man being apprehended by officers in militar

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