The Lychakivskyy district court of Lviv has completed consideration of the criminal proceedings against former Opposition Platform - For Life MP Illya Kyva, the court's press service has said.
Today, on 13 November, the court delivered a guilty verdict in Kyva's case. He was found guilty of committing criminal offences under:
Part 3 of Article 109 (public calls for the violent change and overthrow of the constitutional order and the seizure of state power by a person who is a representative of the authorities, using the media),
Article 111(1) (high treason, i.e. an act intentionally committed by a citizen of Ukraine to the detriment of the sovereignty, territorial integrity and inviolability, defence capability, state, economic or information security of Ukraine by assisting a foreign state in conducting subversive activities against Ukraine),
Art. 436-1(2) (public use of symbols of the communist totalitarian regime committed by a person who is a representative of the authorities),
Article 436 (public calls for aggressive war) of the Criminal Code.
The court finally sentenced the former MP to 14 years' imprisonment with confiscation of property.
The criminal proceedings were conducted in absentia, as Kyva is hiding in Russia and is on the international wanted list.
Before Russia's full-scale invasion, in January 2022, Kyva fled to Spain. In March 2022, he was suspected of high treason and deprived of his parliamentary mandate.
In August, Kiva was notified of suspicion of war propaganda and violent change of the constitutional order.