Kyiv, Ukraine, Oct 1, 2026 (AFP) - Ukraine court jails man for life over nationalist ex-lawmaker's murder

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2026-10-01

A Ukrainian court on Thursday handed a life sentence to a 20-year-old man over the murder of a prominent former nationalist lawmaker in 2024. Iryna Farion, 60, who briefly served as an MP for the ultra-nationalist Svoboda party, was shot in the head near her flat in the western city of Lviv on July 19. The well-known figure regularly chided officials and military personnel for speaking Russian instead of Ukrainian. A court in Lviv found the susp......

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