Lviv region police are establishing the circumstances of the attempt on the life of a public figure, the Telegram channel of the National Police said on Friday evening, without indicating the name of the victim.

"A woman with a gunshot wound to the head was hospitalized... Investigators, operatives, and the leadership of Lviv region police are working on the spot. Measures are being taken to identify and detain the shooter," the police said.

According to the police, the event occurred at about 19:30 "on one of the streets of Lviv." "An unknown person fired a weapon at a 60-year-old woman. Doctors hospitalized the victim with a head wound," the police said in a statement.

As reported, philologist, former MP of Ukraine of the sixth convocation from the All-Ukrainian Association Svoboda (Freedom), former teacher of Lviv Polytechnic University Iryna Farion was hospitalized with a head wound received on Friday evening as a result of an assassination attempt in Lviv on 3 Masaryka Street. She was shot in the temple. She was admitted at about 20:00 to the emergency department of the hospital on Topolna Street in extremely serious condition, she is receiving emergency care.

As Lviv City Council deputy Ihor Zinkevych said "neighbors saw the shooter, he was wearing gloves and the weapon was without a silencer."

Farion was born in 1964 and is 60 years old.