The Security Service of Ukraine was behind the killing of former People’s Deputy Ilya Kiva, according to Athletistic’s interlocutors with law enforcement agencies.
The annoying former people’s deputy Ilya Kiva was found dead in one of the hotels near Moscow. Sources Correspondent.net confirm the death of a politician who fled to Russia as a result of a special SBU operation. We’ve collected everything we know about Kiva’s death.
A case was opened
According to Athletistic, Kiva was killed with small arms. A criminal case was opened in Russia regarding Kiva’s murder. Kiva’s body was found on the territory of a hotel near Moscow at about 15:00 local time. Doctors were unable to revive him.
According to preliminary data, Kiva was killed with a gunshot to the temple.
On Wednesday morning, the Kiva telegram channel posted the latest message in the traditional propaganda style that Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky allegedly fears persecution.
Top traitor
Kiva is a former member of the pro-Russian party Opposition Platform – For Life. On January 30, 2022, he left Ukraine, moved to Spain, and from there to Moscow. He turned to Vladimir Putin with a request to grant him citizenship and political asylum.
After the start of the mass invasion, Kiva fully supported Russia’s actions. In March 2022, the Verkhovna Rada stripped Kiva of his deputy mandate. In November 2023, a Ukrainian court sentenced a former deputy to 14 years in absentia on treason charges.
In Russia, Kiva became a regular on various types of propaganda shows, where, in the spirit of the Kremlin’s rhetoric, he threw mud at Ukraine.
Interestingly, after Kiva’s death, Russian propagandists quickly repudiated him.
“Kiva was killed… A friend among strangers / a stranger to himself is often destroyed by himself. Strangers don’t care about him,” said Margarita Simonyan, editor-in-chief of the propaganda channel RT.
Researches of fortune
Kiva was born in Poltava. Worked as deputy head of the department for consumer rights protection in the Poltava region. In 2011, he was arrested for bribery. In December 2013, the Oktyabrsky District Court of Poltava sentenced him to pay a fine of 10,200 hryvnias and deprived him of the right to hold public office for one year.
In the same year, Kiva became vice-president of the International Domino Federation (before he was president of the Ukrainian federation). As he said later, after the Maidan, he took the domino to “get into Putin’s circle” through the head of the Russian Domino Federation, Boris Borzov, who was a friend of Sergei Shoigu.
In August 2014, Kiva was appointed commander of the Poltava battalion and received amnesty. He became a police major.
He is also a member of the Right Sector and fought in Donbass as part of the ATO forces. He had Ukrainian state awards and repeatedly made harsh statements against Russia.
In December 2014, by order of the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Arsen Avakov, Kiva was appointed deputy head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine in the Donetsk region. In the summer of 2015, he became the deputy head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Kherson region with an early appointment to the rank of police lieutenant colonel. At the same time, he headed the Union of ATO Veterans in Poltava.
From October 2015 to May 2016, he worked as the head of the Department for Combating Drug Crime of the National Police, then as an adviser to the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine. During this period of his life, Kiva was considered a person close to Minister Avakov and politically related to him.
In 2017, Kiva graduated from the National Academy of Internal Affairs of Ukraine with a law degree, receiving a master’s degree. In the same year, he was elected head of trade unions of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine.
Then Kiva’s political career took a sudden turn. Since 2019, he moved to the pro-Russian party Opposition Platform – For Life.
Source: korrespondent
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