Oleksandr Kunytskyi

According to media, apart from Ukrainian citizenship Kunytsky has also Israeli citizenship. As of 29 August 2019, he was wanted by police because of a fight with the ATO participant.

Kunytskyi was People's Deputy candidate as a member of Servant of the People party in the 2019 parliamentary elections (constituency No 169, Kyiv district, part of the Moscow district of Kharkiv). In the constituency Kunytskyi gained 47.99% of the total vote. At the time of the election he was non-partisan individual entrepreneur, living in Kharkiv.

In particular, such a conflict with businessman Andriy Galenko led to the trial, and Oleksandr Kunytskyi was a defendant in the case when he already was a deputy. During 2019–2020, the case investigation continued, according to which Oleksandr Kunytsky and Vitaliy Kosenko had to pay Galenko UAH 450,000 of compensation for spreading false videos on the Internet.

During the 2019 elections, Kunytskyi was actively promoting Oleksandr Dubinsky. They still have ties, and journalists of the Radio Liberty claim him an active representative of the group of Ihor Kolomoiskyi oligarch.

In 2017, O. Kunytsky repeated the conflict on Khortytsia with one of the self-defenders of the checkpoint, Ruslan Venzhega. Because of this, criminal proceedings were opened, however, O. Kunytsky did not visit him.

At night on January 26, 2016, in the city of Zaporizhia, Kunytskyi's partner Vitaly Kosenko was arrested while receiving a $1,500 bribe from the police for not distributing a video compromising officers online. This is part of the amount of EURO 6,000 that Kosenko requested, according to the police. The relevant video with the fact of receiving the first part of the bribe was spread by the media. In the summer of June 21, 2016, the Komunarskyi District Court of Zaporizhzhia found Vitaliy Kosenko guilty of extortion (Part 1 of Article 189 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine) and sentenced him to 3 years of imprisonment with a probation period of 12 months.

After returning to Ukraine after the end of the hot phase of the war with Russia in April 2015, he provoked another conflict with the checkpoint on Khortytsia.

In July 2014, Kunytskyi went to the already occupied Crimea with unknown intentions. However, in the occupied territories, he did not criticize the occupation authorities and the newly created occupation system of the State Tax Service and in addition, in the video he posted, he recognized Crimea as a Russian territory. The most scandalous was a video shot by him in July 2014 entitled "Neither police nor militsiya of Crimea".

At the same time, from the spring of 2014 to 2016, in the territories controlled by Ukraine, Kunytskyi and Kosenko launched an aggressive campaign to discredit the checkpoints created for security reasons. During their "raids", they captured these objects with unknown intentions, provoking the Ukrainian military and volunteers into conflict. Such activities of Road Control activists were actively used by Kremlin propagandists. In particular, self-defenders from the checkpoints called Kunytskyi and Kosenko "Kremlin agents." In April, 2014, Kosenko tried to provoke the conflict on departure from Mykolaiv. A similar conflict arose at the same time with Oleshky's self-defenders.

When Russia launched an active invasion of Ukraine in August 2014, Oleksandr Kunytskyi left for Israel, where, in particular, in a stream dated August 24, 2014, he said that as a citizen of Israel, he was ready to swear an oath to the Israeli army again and serve it. Despite he had the Israeli passport for long, Kunytskyi hid the fact of his citizenship, including during the 2019 parliamentary elections in Ukraine.

Oleksandr Olehovych Kunytskyi (born 25 August 1983, Zaporizhzhia) is an Israeli and Ukrainian blogger, private entrepreneur, and politician. He is People's Deputy of Ukraine of 9th convocation as a member of Servant of the People party. He is also known as ZP Sanek. He used this nickname during the election.