Yevhen Serhiyovych Deidei (; 12 July 1987 – disappeared 10 March 2022) is a Ukrainian politician and coordinator of the battalion of the Special Tasks Patrol Police "Kyiv-1" of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine in Kyiv. He was a people's deputy of Ukraine from November 2014 until August 2019. In 2012, he was sentenced to five years in prison for robbery but was later released from the punishment. Deidei's current whereabouts are unknown. Initial reports indicated that he was killed during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, but other sources have subsequently claimed that he clandestinely left the country via smuggling routes. Biography Early years Deidei was born on 12 July 1987 in the small town of Reni, Odessa Oblast, which lies on the left bank of the Danube. His father, a deputy of the town council of Reni, Serhiy Yakovych Deidei, in 2011 he was convicted of fraud by the decision of Izmailsky District Court of Odessa Oblast. His mother - Olʹha Mykolayivna Deidei (née Volkova), he has a brother Serhiy. In 2004, at the age of 17, he participated in protests during the "Orange Revolution" in Ukraine. Deidei was convicted of robbery in 2012. The verdict was pronounced by the Suvorov district court of Odessa on 23 March 2012. Deidei received five years for robbery without confiscation of property. His accomplice Oleksiy Lyakhovolʹskiy (later he became his assistant in Verkhovna Rada) received the same term of imprisonment - 5 years without confiscation of property. According to the court decision, Deidei acquired a hunting shotgun "TOZ" without any permit, later he sawed off the shoulder stock and barrel of the shotgun, which he kept with him without any legal rights. On 2 February 2011, Deidei and Lyakhovolʹskiy made the first robbery attack on A. Trandasir and S. Trandasir on the 1st Student Lane in Odessa. They beat citizens and took their mobile phone and money. In the evening of the same day, Deidei and Lyakhovolʹskiy attacked two men, A. Khmuryy and I. Sakal, at the corner of Krasnoslobodskaya Street and Yasha Gordienko Street. On the night of 3 February, near the house No. 3 along Ostrovsky Street, the criminals committed the third attack - on S. Syvoplyasov, D. Shevchuk and V. Rudkovsʹka. Accomplices began to beat the men, when they were noticed by militsiya officers. Lyakhovolʹskiy was arrested while trying to escape from