The court allowed to conduct a special investigation into the ex-deputy of the Opposition Platform for Life Ilya Kiva, suspected of high treason and public calls for changing the borders of Ukraine. This was reported in the Office of the Attorney General.

“With the participation of the prosecutors of the Office of the Prosecutor General, the court granted permission for a special pre-trial investigation against the former people’s deputy of Ukraine, suspected of public calls for a violent change of power, encroachment on the territorial integrity and inviolability of Ukraine, treason and propaganda of war (h. 3 st. 109, h. 3 st. 110, h. 1 st. 111, st. 436, h. 2 st. 436-1 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine,” the UCP reported..

It is indicated that Kiva is already on the international wanted list..

According to the investigation, the ex-deputy, being in the Russian Federation, which unleashed a large-scale war against Ukraine, Kiva took part in one of the propaganda shows on Russian television. There he publicly called on the top leadership of Russia to forcibly change the constitutional order and seize state power in Ukraine..

“The suspect offered to physically eliminate the President of Ukraine and other state officials, and also publicly called for waging an aggressive war on the territory of our country,” the UCP added..

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The case under the “gosmen” article against Kiva was opened, in particular, for the fact that in October 2022 he recorded a video greeting on his birthday to the president of the aggressor country, Vladimir Putin.

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A week after this video, Kiva recorded another “congratulation” - on the occasion of the anniversary of the liquidation of Stepan Bandera on October 15, 1959: in that video, he fired from a machine gun, and fireworks exploded behind him. In this regard, the Office of the Prosecutor General also opened a case.