Teenage suspect held over assassination of Ukrainian language advocate

Iryna Farion (Alamy/PA)

Ukraine’s president has announced that authorities have detained an 18-year-old suspect over the shooting death of a former legislator who was an advocate for the use of the Ukrainian language instead of Russian.

Volodymyr Zelensky said on Thursday that the suspect in the killing of Iryna Farion, 60, was detained in Dnipro, hundreds of miles to the east.