Ukraine’s state news on Monday released images purportedly showing the fresh corpse of a pro-Russian former MP who was gunned down in a Moscow park last week, the Telegraph reports.
Illia Kyva, a former opposition MP who last year was convicted in absentia of high treason and and sentenced to 14 years, had often filmed anti-Kyiv propaganda videos in the park. “This is a signal to all traitors and war criminals who have flipped to the enemy side,” a source in Ukraine’s SBU intelligence service told the Telegraph. “Remember: Russia will not protect you. As Vasyl Maliuk, head of the SBU, said earlier, death is the only prospect that awaits the enemies of Ukraine.”
Kyva, a regular guest on the Russian version of Fox News, was reportedly often seen with a security detail, but one way or another the Ukrainians caught him alone and ended his influencer career.