“Minister” of the conquerors. Kovalev was killed near Kherson

Many sources report a collaborator who was shot and entered the Ukrainian parliament with the Servant of the People, but returned to his homeland at the beginning of a full-scale invasion to cooperate with the invaders.

In the Kherson region, a people’s representative from the Servant of the People party, Aleksey Kovalev, who began to cooperate with the Russian invaders, was killed. His death was confirmed in the Civil Service, from where he was expelled for collaborationism. The Kherson regional council reported that the occupiers had gathered security forces in occupied Hola Pristan, where Kovalev was killed, to carry out “filtering measures.” Correspondent.net telling the details.

Kovalev was shot in his own house

The death of People’s Deputy Alexei Kovalev, appointed by the Russian occupiers as “Minister of Agriculture” in the occupied territories of the Kherson region, became known on Sunday. One of the first to report was the deputy of the Kherson Regional State Administration, Sergey Khlan, noting that the information needed to be clarified.

“There is information that the representative of the former person – the traitor Alexei Kovalev was killed in Iron Port. The data needs to be clarified, but it is interesting that the propaganda media also reported the death of their” minister “, although they immediately removed it,” Khlan said.

Soon after, military journalist Andriy Tsaplienko wrote about it, citing sources both in occupied and controlled territory of Ukraine. According to him, the traitor Kovalev was shot in his house in the city of Golaya Pristan.

“Kovalev, a rich agrarian of Kherson, entered the parliament from the Servant of the People and unexpectedly, at the beginning of the invasion, offered his services to the invaders. priority target,” Tsaplienko wrote .

Many sources of the Kherson publication Most of the law enforcement officers did not directly confirm the information about the death of Kovalev. One of them said the accomplice suffered two bullet wounds – in the stomach and head.

Next to his body is a Mossberg pump-action shotgun, officially registered in the name of Kovalev. In addition, according to media reports, his common-law wife was stabbed, hospitalized.

Later, Ukrayinska Pravda, citing a source in the Servant of the People, announced Kovalev’s death. Another renegade MP Oleg Tsarev and the Russian resource Baza also reported the killing of Kovalev.

On the morning of August 29, the Deputy Chairman of the Kherson Regional Council, Yuriy Sobolevsky, said that the Russian occupiers had gathered security officials in Hola Pristan to investigate for the murder of Kovalev.

“There is information that the orcs are now planning to carry out screening measures at the Naked Pier. They have released additional forces there, they will conduct checks and searches of the population,” said his Telegram message.

However, at the time of the release of the material, there was no official report of Kovalev’s death.

Who is behind the killing of Kovalev

The representative of the people went to the Kherson region in the first days of a full-scale invasion, according to him, to help the people, and since then he has not been in contact with Kyiv. Later, Kovalev was expelled from the Servant of the People group, but was not deprived of his deputy mandate.

According to an investigation by Radio Liberty, Kovalev owes his appearance on the list of majoritarian candidates of the presidential party to Ilya Pavlyuk, who is called the “shadow curator” of the mono-majority.

According to some publication sources, aware of the nuances of the 2019 parliamentary election campaign, Pavlyuk was then engaged in the selection of candidates for the Servant of the People in the Odessa, Mykolaiv and Kherson regions.

In the Rada, Kovalev joined the committee on financial policy, taxes and customs, heading the subcommittee on excise tax and legislative regulation of the alcohol, alcohol and tobacco market.

Already in the fall of 2019, Kovalev was at the center of one of the first high-profile scandals in the new Verkhovna Rada. Together with a number of deputies from other parties, he opposed the initiative of his own party members to liquidate the so-called “Yatsenko playgrounds.”

We are talking about electronic platforms that are intermediaries between property appraisers and the electronic database of the State Property Fund and actually forced everyone who buys or sells property in Ukraine to pay “corruption rent”.

“Lesha is the one who went around and offered money to the committee members so they wouldn’t touch this topic on the sites,” said a Radio Liberty source. Other interlocutors of the publication called Kovalev a “decider”, who “tried to make money on everything”, for which he was called “Lesha – a free cash desk.”

In early June, on the initiative of the State Bureau of Investigation, criminal proceedings were initiated against Kovalev for collaboration activities. A month later, he was told of the betrayal.

At the end of June, an attempt on Kovalev’s life was reported – his car exploded, but the collaborator himself remained alive. On June 30, Russian media published a video recorded at the hospital in which Kovalev accused the SBU of organizing an assassination attempt on him.

Kovalev was probably killed during a criminal showdown for grain and vegetables between Kherson invaders, Ukrainian journalist Denis Kazansky believes. He predicted that the death of Kovalev could be attributed to “Ukrainian partisans”, but it was not certain that they were involved in this event.

“Robbery and robbery now reign in the occupied territory. Farmers are deprived of their crops, they are forced to pay huge bribes for the right to take their products only from the fields where. The authorities who occupy has actually become an organized criminal group – recently the Russians themselves arrested the deputy Gauleiter of Novaya Kakhovka, Vitaly Efimenko, for theft “He was engaged in the theft of local businessmen. It is likely that Kovalev was also executed for similar charges,” the journalist writes.

Since the beginning of the summer, there have been several assassination attempts on officials appointed by Moscow in the Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine. Many of them died. Ukraine does not claim responsibility for the attacks.

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