This Wednesday, the body of a controversial Ukrainian politician was found mortally wounded in a village in the Moscow region, Russia. Ilya Kiva was a former member of the Ukrainian parliament, belonging to the pro-Russian party. A few days before Russia invaded Ukraine, he fled his country to Spain. He then applied for Russian citizenship and publicly advocated Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Its elimination could be the work of Ukrainian special services.
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With our correspondent in kyiv, Stéphane Siohan
Ilya Kiva, 46 years old. Originally from Poltava, in the center-east of Ukraine, a lawyer by training, who became vaguely an accountant in industrial companies, he is the archetype of these villainous henchmen who have become masters in the art of money laundering, the period of pro-Russian leader Viktor Yanukovych.
After the Maidan revolution, this bodybuilding enthusiast went all out, joining the ultra-nationalists of Pravy Sektor, without conviction, before becoming advisor to the then Minister of the Interior, Arsen Avakov, in charge of anti-war operations. -police drugs. Kiev revelers painfully remember the violent raids by the men of Ilya Kiva, a toxic post-Maidan personality, specializing in extra-judicial operations.
In 2019, this scandalous and notoriously violent man, loathed in public opinion, ran for the presidential election, then became a member of parliament in the pro-Russian party of Viktor Medvedchuk, Vladimir Putin’s relay in Ukraine.
In 2022, he fled, took refuge in Russia, requested Russian nationality and called for nuclear strikes on kyiv, then sentenced to 14 years in prison for treason by the Ukrainian authorities.
On Wednesday, his body was found lying, bloodied, in the snow on the outskirts of Moscow, while in recent months, several officials close to Kiev’s security services have affirmed that they would pursue traitors to the whole planet. Ukraine, with the same methods as the Israeli Mossad in its time.