The vigilantes may end giving the U.S. the regime change in Ukraine it so desperately wants. From Nadezhda Romanenko at swentr.site:
Far-right politician Andrey Parubiy was killed not by a Russian agent, but by a grieving father desperate for justice
Soldiers carry the coffin of former Ukrainian parliament speaker Andrey Parubiy, who was killed last Saturday in Lviv, Ukraine, Sept. 2, 2025. © AP Photo/Vladyslav Musiienk
When the news broke that a suspect had been arrested in the assassination of former Rada speaker, far-right Maidan figure Andrey Parubiy, much of the initial discussion revolved around Russia. Ukrainian authorities are predictably looking for a “Russian footprint.” But the suspect’s own words tell a very different story – a story of a grieving father who turned his despair into violence, and in doing so, revealed a deeper crisis within Ukrainian society itself.
The man accused of murdering Parubiy, one Mikhail Stselnikov, is not a shadowy foreign agent, but a Ukrainian whose son went missing in the war against Russia. His confession was blunt: his act was driven by personal revenge against the Ukrainian authorities. He says he chose Parubiy because he lived nearby, and he would’ve chosen former president Pyotr Poroshenko if that were more convenient. This choice of target is not random: these are men who, since the 2014 Maidan revolution, took Ukraine down the path the path toward confrontation with Russia, NATO aspirations, and ultimately, a devastating war.
For this father, the tragedy is bitterly ironic. His son died fighting the Russians, yet he places blame not on Moscow, but on his own government. His child became a casualty not of “Putin’s aggression,” but of decisions made by Kiev’s political elite a decade earlier. In killing Parubiy, a key figure of the Maidan, he struck at the heart of the establishment that, in his view, had condemned his son to die.
One of the Donbas civilian shelling planners.
Your sin will find you out and the people have the memory of an elephant.