Vyacheslav Zinchenko, a suspect in the murder of Iryna Farion, said that he did not kill the linguist.
This was reported by Suspilne Lviv.
‘I did nothing, and I did nothing with Farion. I'm asking some other questions. I did nothing, it was not me. These are the kinds of questions I say - it's not me,’ Zinchenko said.
He also noted that he was not ready to comment on his attitude towards neo-Nazi groups.
Vyacheslav Zinchenko added that he has a negative attitude towards Putin and the entire regime, and that he does not want to have anything to do with it and has never had anything to do with it.
The young man said that he was a certified UAV operator and had taken the relevant courses.
The case of the murder of Iryna Farion
- On 25 July, the suspect was detained in Dnipro, a local 18-year-old resident. According to law enforcement, he had rented at least three apartments in Lviv before the murder.
- Slidstvo Info reported that the detainee is a student of the Dnipro State University of Internal Affairs named Vyacheslav. According to Skhemy journalists, the suspect was following the page of a blogger who criticised Farion and spread conspiracy and neo-Nazi views.
- Law enforcement officers are considering all versions of the motive for the crime. Farion, defending the interests of the Ukrainian language, sometimes made radical statements, and last year she was suspended from teaching at Lviv Polytechnic after she said that she did not consider Russian-speaking soldiers of Azov and the 3rd Assault Brigade to be Ukrainians if they could not speak Ukrainian. She also published a letter addressed to her from a student from the occupied Crimea. The letter contained the student's personal data, and the occupiers used it to put pressure on him. After these episodes, the SBU opened proceedings against Farion. Eventually, in June, the linguist was reinstated in her position at the university.