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Illia Volodymyrovych Kiva (Template:Lang-uk, born 2 October 1977) is a Ukrainian politician. He is a former leader of the Socialist Party of Ukraine and was an opposition MP in the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine's national parliament, between 2019 and the 2022 invasion of Ukraine when the Verkovna Rada deprived him of his mandate, following comments in support of Russia.

Biography

Until 2003, Kyva studied at the Oil and Gas Geological and Mechanical-Technical School in his native Poltava, specializing in maintenance. He also took courses to become a "pedagogue-psychologist".

In 2005, he was hired to become the chief accountant of an industrial company.

In 2009, he graduated with a degree in Law from the Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University.

In 2010, he worked in the department of road works.

In 2011, he became the head of Poltava's consumer rights department, for a short spell of two months. He was charged for corruption by a district tribunal of the Poltava region, sentenced Kyva to 10,000 hryvnia and barred him from public office for one year.

Politics

2013-2017

Kvya's political career began in 2013, when he unsuccessfully stood for the Verkhovna Rada.

In 2014, Kyva became a police major (майора міліції) and was appointed commander of his native town's battalion, "Poltavshchyna". He became the leader of Right Sector's Eastern division stretching from Poltava to Donetsk, and was the representative of Dmytro Yarosh's 2014 presidential election campaign.

He was then appointed deputy chief of the Ministry of Internal Affairs' regional department for Donetsk.

At this time he also befriended Dmytro Korchynsky.

In 2016, he attracted controversy for endorsing extrajudicial methods of combatting drug crime while at the helm of the ministry's anti-drug crime division.

In 2016-2017, he was an advisor to Arsen Avakov.

2019-2022

He was an unsuccessful candidate in the 2019 Ukrainian presidential election, receiving a few thousand votes under the banner of the Socialist Party of Ukraine. At this moment, he made a political U-turn, and was elected on the pro-Russian Opposition list in the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election, and then went to host his own show on the Zik TV channel, said to be controlled by Viktor Medvedchuk.

On 24 February 2022 Russia launched a full scale invasion of Ukraine. On this day Kyva expressed support for the invasion claiming "the Ukrainian people need liberation" and he also claimed that "Ukrainians, Belarusians, Russians are one people." Furthermore he stated that Ukraine was "enslaved and brought to its knees by the West, imbued with Nazism, and has no future." He blamed the war on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and urged him to resign.

Prior to the invasion Kyva had left for Spain. On 3 March 2022 Kyva was expelled from the party and faction of Opposition Platform — For Life. On 6 March 2022 Prosecutor General Iryna Venediktova announced that Kiva was being charged with high treason, as well as infringing on Ukraine's territorial integrity, taking part in Russian war propaganda, and illegal weapons possession.

On 15 March 2022 the Verkhovna Rada deprived Kyva of his mandate as a People's Deputy.

See also

• List of members of the parliament of Ukraine, 2019–23

References

1. ^ "Kyva is no longer a People's Deputy". Українська правда (in Ukrainian). 15 March 2022. Retrieved 15 March 2022.
2. "Илья Кива избран главой партийной организации г.Полтава". ОП-ЗЖ. ОППОЗИЦИОННАЯ ПЛАТФОРМА – ЗА ЖИЗНЬ (in Russian). Retrieved 2022-01-01.
3. ^ Taras Tarasiuk; Andreas Umland (29 September 2021), Unexpected Friendships: Cooperation of Ukrainian Ultra-Nationalists with Russian and Pro-Kremlin Actors, retrieved 21 March 2022
4. Kokriatski, Romeo (2021-05-07). "Ilya Kiva and the Man Who Would Be A PhD". Заборона. Retrieved 2022-03-20.
5. "Putin announces formal start of Russia's invasion in eastern Ukraine". Meduza. 24 February 2022. Archived from the original on 24 February 2022. Retrieved 24 February 2022.
6. ^ "Kyva on the air of RosTV said that Ukraine is "enslaved and brought to its knees by the West"". Українська правда (in Ukrainian). 24 February 2022. Retrieved 15 March 2022.
7. ^ "The Verkhovna Rada before the war and now. How do parties vote for security initiatives?". Українська правда (in Ukrainian). 11 March 2022. Retrieved 15 March 2022.
8. "Prosecutors charge pro-Kremlin lawmaker with high treason". The Kyiv Independent. Archived from the original on 8 March 2022. Retrieved 8 March 2022.

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