Alexey Kovalev

Alexey Kovalev

Politician
Date of Birth: 19.01.1989
Country: Ukraine

Content:
  1. Biographical Sketch
  2. Political Involvement:
  3. Assassination Attempt and Subsequent Assassination:
  4. Political Allegiance to Russian Occupying Forces:
  5. Posthumous Honors

Biographical Sketch

Name:Alexey Kovalev
Birth:January 19, 1989, Golaya Pristan, Ukraine
Education:Odessa Law Academy
Early Career:
- Jurist in an agricultural enterprise

- Director of LLC "LC-AGRO", a leading agricultural producer in the region

Political Involvement:

- Elected to the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian Parliament) in 2019 from the 186th Electoral District of Kherson Oblast as a member of the "Servant of the People" faction

- Suspended from the faction on April 28, 2022, and expelled on May 3, 2022, due to his departure from Ukraine during the Russian special operation

Assassination Attempt and Subsequent Assassination:

- Survived an assassination attempt on June 22, 2022, in which his car was bombed and he was wounded, receiving treatment in Crimea

- Mandate as a Verkhovna Rada member annulled by the parliament's leadership on June 30, 2022

- Murdered on August 28, 2022, along with his partner in their home by unknown assailants; reported causes of death ranged from gunshot wounds to knife wounds

Political Allegiance to Russian Occupying Forces:

- Joined the Russian-occupied Kherson Oblast Military-Civilian Administration as Deputy Chairman for Agriculture on July 4, 2022

Posthumous Honors

- Interred in his hometown on August 31, 2022

- Awarded the Order of Courage posthumously by the President of the Russian Federation on October 7, 2022

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