People’s Deputy Kunytskyi, who left Ukraine in 2024, unexpectedly came to the Rada

People’s Deputy Oleksandr Kunytskyi came to the Verkhovna Rada for the first time since 2024. This was reported by his parliamentary colleagues Olga Vasylevska-Smahliuk and Oleksii Honcharenko.

- Deputy Kunytskyi was spotted in the Rada chamber. I remind you, he disappeared in 2024, - wrote Olga Vasylevska-Smahliuk on her Telegram channel.

Oleksii Honcharenko joked that the program to bring Ukrainians back is working and now a population census can be done.

The movement “Chesno” recorded that Deputy Kunytskyi voted at a Rada session for the first time in two years on 9 November.

According to sources of the Kharkiv publication “Dumka,” within the Servant of the People party, Kunytskyi returned to Ukraine last weekend. Before being elected to the Rada in a majoritarian district in Kharkiv’s Kyiv district, Kunytskyi was a blogger under the nickname “ZP Sanek.”

According to the media, in September 2024 the deputy left Ukraine under the pretext of a business trip to the USA and has not returned since. In his most recent declaration, Kunytskyi reported that since October 2024 he has been living free of charge in an apartment in Canada.

Despite effectively fleeing Ukraine, Kunytskyi retained his deputy mandate but did not receive a salary. Moreover, he remained a member of the Rada’s law enforcement committee, even though motions to recall him were registered in the Rada twice. Despite his absences, Kunytskyi was not expelled from Servant of the People.

In August, People’s Deputy Maryana Bezuhla rejoined the Servant of the People faction, which she had left two years earlier.

In October, People’s Deputy Oleksii Honcharenko was officially expelled from the European Solidarity faction over his “peace plan.”