Kiva Gets into Fight with ATO Veteran in Kyiv Restaurant (Video)

The MP attributes the fight to systematic actions against him as an opposition politician.

Ukrainian MP Ilya Kiva of the Opposition Platform — For Life party brawled with ATO veteran Mikhail Maiman at the Mosso restaurant in Kyiv on January 22 at around 12:00.

Surveillance camera footage capturing the incident has appeared online.

For reasons that have not yet been established, the MP approached Maiman and tried to head-butt him, after which he received a punch to the face and apparently lost his balance.

After this, a crowd of the MP’s bodyguards ran up to the veteran and attacked him.

Kiva later returned to the table where, as Apostrophe reports, representatives of the criminal underworld of Dnipro were seated — in particular, a local authority nicknamed “Belmondo”.

“In order to avoid the spread of fakes and myths, I want to state my position and shed light on the current situation, — Kiva wrote on social media. — The person who attacked me in the Mokko restaurant behaved inappropriately and shouted obscene words.”

Ilya Kiva

I stood up and walked over to him, leaned in to ask him to behave decently, and he struck me. This behavior and act were preceded earlier by threats online, both in private messages and publicly! These are systematic actions against me as an opposition politician, which began half a year ago. Following the incident, the police were called and a report was drawn up; the bruises were documented.

The MP also posted screenshots of his correspondence with Maiman online.

Maiman, in turn, boasted that he “spat in Kiva’s mouth.”

This is not the first time Kiva has found himself in scandalous situations. Earlier, he became the subject of videos in which he touched his genitals during a session of the Verkhovna Rada, watching strange videos and drawing.

The MP also urged “fans” to send him intimate photos during off-hours.