Media identifies Farion's murder suspect. He is a football player

Slidstvo.Info journalists believe that the alleged killer of Iryna Farion is an 18-year-old man named Viacheslav Zinchenko.

The media reports this on its website.

It is known that in 2023, Zinchenko played in a Dnipro football team, operating under a local sports school. And a month before the murder, the man participated in the Pulse tournament as part of the Juniors team.

In social networks, the man was subscribed to numerous far-right groups, including russian ones. Viacheslav published anti-Semitic and racist comments there.

As the Ukrainian News agency earlier reported, on July 19, around 7:30 p.m. in Lviv, an unknown person shot Iryna Farion with a firearm on Masaryka Street. As a result of the shooting, Farion received a severe head injury.

She was hospitalized at the Saint Panteleimon Hospital, where she was in intensive care for some time.

Despite the efforts of doctors, Iryna Farion died three hours after the attempt.

The russian Telegram channel Astra reported that the russian neo-Nazi group NS/WP (National-Socialism/White Power) claimed responsibility for the murder of Iryna Farion in Lviv.

However, later it became known about the arrest of the suspect in the murder of Farion in Dnipro.