Social Media Reacts Strongly to MP Kiva's Masturbation in Verkhovna Rada

Social media reaction was not long in coming.

Today, October 2, People's Deputy Ilya Volodymyrovych Kiva masturbated right during a session of the Verkhovna Rada. TK Media covered the incident and identified the girl the deputy had been communicating with.

The scandalous video quickly gained popularity online, and although Ilya Kiva himself has not yet commented on the incident, social media reacted strongly to his actions during the Verkhovna Rada session.

One of the most popular reactions came from Anton Khodza with his “theory of five handshakes”:

Khodza also advised deputies not to shake Kiva's hand and not to involve him in button-pressing, because “you'll have to work with those buttons he pressed.”

Journalist Maryna Danyliuk-Yarmolaieva suggests that soon in the Verkhovna Rada people will be asking: “Did you shake hands with Kiva?”.

Odesa activist Serhiy Sternenko called the deputy's actions “the development of his first bill”:

In the community “Typical Kyiv” on Facebook, under a post with news of the incident, comments like these appear:

• “Now talk of ‘untouchability’ is out of the question. Everything has been touched and even squeezed)) thanks to Yulia”
• “And then he'll say he decided to straighten his trousers along with his socks, but got carried away”
• “What won't the valiant deputy do to distract the people from signing the Steinmeier formula”
• “Well, why this news doesn't surprise me”

Overall, the social media reaction is standard and justified: commentators are outraged, mocking and bewildered at how a person who allowed himself such behaviour could become a people's deputy and end up in the Verkhovna Rada.

Also today the Verkhovna Rada cut state funding for some parties.

And at the end of September the owner of ROZETKA spoke out against laws from Zelensky's administration.