Ukrainian MP Ilya Kiva of the Opposition Platform — For Life was looking at intimate photos during a vote in the parliament's plenary hall. The corresponding video was provided to TK Media by journalist Alexey Lipovetsky.
The video shows the MP looking at intimate photos sent to him on the WhatsApp messenger, after which he sets his phone aside. Sitting next to the parliamentarian at that moment was his faction colleague from the OPFL, Natalia Korolevska.
At that time, Verkhovna Rada Speaker Dmytro Razumkov was urging deputies to decide and vote on one of the bills submitted for the hall's consideration.
The TK Media editorial team respects the private lives of elected deputies and publishes this correspondence only because it was conducted by a parliamentarian during working hours in the plenary hall of the country's main legislative body. We have concealed the name of the MP's interlocutor and blurred the photos.

Earlier, journalists from Bihus.info established that Ilya Kiva had a criminal record for corruption offences and had been held in pre-trial detention, but the court took into account a certificate from psychiatric institutions and handed down a suspended sentence. Ilya Kiva pleaded guilty and did not appeal. In an interview with Natalia Vlashchenko, the politician said the case against him was fabricated due to a conflict with the Poltava UBOP.