Career
In the years leading up to the Ukrainian independence in 1991 Parubiy was an independence activist and was arrested for organizing an unsanctioned rally in 1989. In 1998–2004 Parubiy led the paramilitary organization of SNPU, the Patriot of Ukraine. Parubiy left these organizations in 2004.
Parubiy co-led the Orange Revolution in 2004.
In the 2007 parliamentary elections he was voted into the Ukrainian parliament on an Our Ukraine–People"s Self-Defense Bloc ticket. From December 2013 to February 2014 Parubiy was a commandant of Euromaidan.
He was coordinator of the volunteer security corps for the mainstream protesters, in which counterintelligence (department of the secret special tasks) was headed by Victor Yahun. He was then appointed Secretary of the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine.
This appointed was approved by (then) new Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on June 16, 2014.
As Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council, Parubiy oversaw the "anti–terrorist" operation against pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine. Parubiy resigned as Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council on August 7, 2014. He declined to say why, stating "I believe it is unacceptable to comment on my resignation in a time of war", and he would "continue to assist the front, primarily volunteer battalions".
President Poroshenko signed a decree confirming Parubiy"s dismissal the same day.
Reality Therapy reported that local media were stating that Parubiy resigned after he was ordered to declare another ceasefire in the southeast of Ukraine, but refused to do southern