A former Ukrainian MP was shot dead on the street near her home in Lviv.

60-year-old Irina Farion was taken to St. Panteleimon Hospital after the attack and later died of her injuries.

A manhunt is currently underway to arrest the attacker, who fled the scene.

Ukrainian officials said an investigation into the incident was underway and the attack was being treated as an assassination.

“Work is being done on all available surveillance cameras, witnesses are being questioned, and many areas are being investigated. All traces are being investigated, including those leading to Russia,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on his official Telegram channel on Saturday.

“All necessary forces of the Ukrainian National Police and the Security Service of Ukraine have been deployed to search for the criminal.”

Varion was a member of the Ukrainian parliament for the ultra-nationalist Svoboda party between 2012 and 2014.

She is known for her campaigns to encourage Russian-speaking Ukrainian officials to speak the Ukrainian language.

Varyon was also a professor at the Ukrainian Language Department of Lviv Polytechnic University, although she was briefly suspended.

She controversially criticized Russian-speaking members of the Ukrainian Azov Regiment who defended the port city of Mariupol in the early days of the large-scale invasion. Farion claimed that she could not call Ukrainian soldiers Ukrainians if they spoke Russian.

Farion’s neighbors and friends brought flowers and lanterns to the spot where she was murdered.