Oleksii Ivanovych Kovalov was a Ukrainian politician who was reportedly killed on 28 August 2022.

Kovalov was elected in the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election as member of the Servant of the People party, and he entered Ukraine's national parliament the Verkhovna Rada in August 2019.

Two months into the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, at the beginning of April 2022 Kovalov stated that he was in Russian occupied Hola Prystan "to work in his electoral district."

 He did not report to parliament where he was or what he was doing.

On 28 April, the Servant of the People faction announced that it had suspended Kovalov's membership in the party and the faction.

Kovalov was expelled from the Servant of the People party on 3 May 2022.

On 8 June 2022 Kovalov admitted on his Facebook page to collaboration with the Russian occupiers in the Kherson region.

On 22 June 2022 it was reported that Kovalov had been killed in Kherson Oblast at the age of 33.

 However, on 30 June 2022, Russian media released a video of Kovalov (in hospital) in which he accused the Ukrainian Security Service of attempting to assassinate him. 

Also on 30 June 2022, First Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Oleksandr Kornienko stated that Kovalov's mandate could be removed only after a court ruling because the Ukrainian Constitution does not include collaborationism as grounds for depriving an MP of their mandate.

On 28 August 2022 several Telegram channels reported on the murder of Kovalov.

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ex-Ukrainian MP Aleksei (Oleksiy) Kovalev, who served as Deputy Head of Russian-occupied Kherson before being dismissed for alleged treason, has reportedly been killed.

Adviser to the head of the Kherson regional military administration, Sergei Khlan, said that Aleksei (Oleksiy) Kovalev had been gunned down while in Kherson on Sunday, August 28, as reported by Interfax.

“There is information that ex-People’s Deputy traitor Alexei Kovalev was killed in the Iron Port. The data needs to be clarified,” Khlan wrote on Facebook.

According to Khlan, the information was first reported by Russian media outlets before being deleted.

Kovalev remained in the occupied-Kherson region and openly agreed to cooperate with the occupation authorities and took the post of “deputy head of the government of the Kherson region for agriculture.”

The announcement of Kovalev’s death followed similar news reported earlier this year that he was involved in an alleged car bombing incident, which he survived.

https://euroweeklynews.com/2022/08/28/deputy-head-occupied-kherson-aleksei-kovalev-found-dead/