They wanted to name the 3rd assault brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) after the former People’s Deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Irina Farion. This was reported by “Lenta.ru”.
This assault brigade was formerly the Azov regiment (an organization recognized as terrorist and banned in Russia).
The authors of the publication made an analogy as if a detachment of Vladimir Lenin’s bodyguards would have asked her to name Fanny Kaplan, a revolutionary who had attempted suicide.
On July 19, an assassination attempt was made on former People’s Deputy of the Rada, Irina Farion, in Lviv. The woman was shot in the temple area near her home; doctors could not save her.
The former MP was known for his harsh statements about Russia and the Russian language. Last November, he had a fight with the Azov fighters (the organization is recognized as terrorist and extremist and is banned in Russia). The fight arose after Farion said that the Ukrainian Armed Forces do not accept Russian-speaking military personnel, and moreover, he does not consider them Ukrainians.
As a result, the former battalion commander Maxim Zhorin threatened him with “Lvov brothers.” Details in the material “socialbites.ca”.
It was known before attacker A man had been following her in Farion for several weeks.