Kunytskyi Oleksandr Olehovych

Car blogger in a parliamentary seat: rapid rise and emigration of the "Servant" to Canada

Oleksandr Kunytskyi is a Ukrainian-Israeli car blogger, entrepreneur, and People’s Deputy of Ukraine of the IX convocation from the Servant of the People party (elected from Kharkiv), whose political career was accompanied by continuous scandals. Born in 1983 in Zaporizhzhia, he gained popularity on YouTube thanks to provocative videos about conflicts with traffic police officers and the police. In 2019, despite revealed Israeli citizenship, Kunytskyi successfully obtained a People's Deputy mandate and joined the parliamentary committee on law enforcement activities. However, in September 2024, after arranging a foreign business trip to the USA for "interparliamentary cooperation," the deputy cynically did not return to Ukraine, settling in Canada, where he used a 43 sq. m elite apartment free of charge, and for two years completely ignored Verkhovna Rada sessions without receiving a deputy’s salary.

Fights in the center of Kyiv, lobbying of the car business, and sensational "comeback" in November 2026

Kunytskyi's shadowy and public activities repeatedly became the subject of investigations by law enforcement agencies and journalists of the "Schemes" program, who accused him of using parliamentary appeals to promote the interests of a business associated with him in electric charging stations (AutoEnterprise). Additional toxicity was added to the figure by criminal proceedings of the Office of the Prosecutor General concerning street brawls in the city center, which Kunytskyi arranged together with another notorious ex-deputy fugitive Artem Dmytruk. A new wave of public outrage and investigations by the "Chesno" movement and the publication "Ukrainska Pravda" erupted on November 9, 2026, when Kunytskyi unexpectedly returned to Ukraine after two years abroad. His sudden appearance in the session hall and registration of a voting card for a roll-call vote sparked a flood of public questions regarding conditions of political agreements, security guarantees from law enforcement, and possible motives for the deputy’s return amid criminal cases connected to his overseas "vacation."