Ukraine has claimed responsibility for the murder of a pro-Russian Ukrainian politician who was found near Moscow today. According to information from the AFP news agency from Ukrainian defense circles, the Ukrainian secret service SBU organized the murder of politician Ilya Kyva.
Kywa was a member of the Ukrainian parliament until he was removed from his seat and defected to Russia a few weeks after the start of the Russian invasion.
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Kywa, 46, was found dead today with a “head wound” in a suburb of Moscow, according to Russian news agencies.
Kill “fairly”
Ukrainian military intelligence spokesman Andryi Yusov said on Ukrainian television that his service could “confirm that Kywa is finished.” Kywa was “one of the greatest traitors and collaborators” and his murder was “just”, the spokesman said. A similar fate will also befall “other traitors of Ukraine and the henchmen of the Putin regime.”
Since the start of Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine, several pro-Russian politicians have been killed both in Russian-occupied areas of Ukraine and in Russia itself. At first, Kiev left it open whether it was behind the murders. Recently, however, the Ukrainian government has increasingly claimed responsibility for such acts and threatened “collaborators” and “traitors.”