Murder of Iryna Farion

Common card · No. 200869

Iryna Farion, a Ukrainian linguist, former lawmaker and nationalist politician who served as a deputy in the Verkhovna Rada from 2012 to 2014 for Svoboda, was assassinated outside her home in Lviv, Ukraine, on 19 July 2024. She was 60 years old. Authorities arrested 18-year-old Viacheslav Zinchenko in Dnipro, nearly 1,000 km from Lviv. He had rented at least three apartments in Lviv, allegedly preparing for the crime. Zinchenko was subsequently found guilty and sentenced to life in prison.

Read on Wikipedia · Image Zadorozhniuk, CC BY 4.0