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.