He accelerated his car to 300 km/h and nearly hit pedestrian: MP Zhelezniak spoke about dangerous ’joyrides’ of ’rich kid’ through Kyiv without number plates. VIDEO+PHOTOS
MP Yaroslav Zhelezniak spoke about 24-year-old Oleksandr Mankivskyi, known on social media as Yummy, who, according to the MP, organises high-speed car stunts and posts them on social media. During one such drive through Kyiv, the car sped past a pedestrian at a dangerous distance, and its number plates had been removed before the drive.
According to Censor.NET, Zhelezniak spoke about this on social media, publishing a video and the results of his search for information about the driver from open sources.
"In our experience, this is the first time an investigation has begun with… a Twitch stream," the MP noted.
The dangerous driving was captured live on stream
According to Zhelezniak, his team’s attention was drawn to a recording of a car journey through Kyiv. In the video, the driver is travelling through the city at high speed, and at one point the car passes dangerously close to a pedestrian.
"The streamer captured these ‘joyrides’ around Kyiv, which frankly frighten me as both a driver and a father. At one point, a car even sped past a pedestrian at a dangerous distance," said Zheleznyak.
Following this, the MP’s team began investigating who might be behind the wheel and why, in his words, those involved in such drives feel so at ease on the capital’s roads.
According to Zhelezniak, the number plates are simply removed from the car before these high-speed drives. In the footage he released, the MP says, this process is not concealed.
"The scheme is simple – they simply remove the number plates from the car before their stunts. Without making any attempt to hide," the MP stated.
The driver was identified through open sources
At the same time, the absence of number plates at the time of drive, as Zhelezniak claims, did not prevent the identification of the car and the likely driver.
According to the MP, it took his team several days of work using open-source intelligence. Initially, the car’s owner was identified via the number plates, and a subsequent OSINT search led to her 24-year-old son, Oleksandr Mankivskyi.
He is known on social media under the pseudonym Yummy.
"A bit of OSINT led me to the driver – her 24-year-old son, Oleksandr Mankivskyi. Better known on social media as Yummy," Zhelezniak said.
According to the MP, Mankivskyi’s Instagram and TikTok accounts feature numerous videos dedicated to high-speed driving. In some of these clips, Zhelezniak claims, speeds of up to 300 km/h were recorded.
Zhelezniak also drew attention to his income
The MP’s team also checked the available data on the young man’s official income. According to Zhelezniak, this amounts to just over 200,000 hryvnias.
The MP questioned whether such official income would be sufficient to cover the cost of the car featured in the video and the associated expenses.
Separately, Zhelezniak raised the issue of the law enforcement agencies’ response. In his view, if the driver’s identity could be established within a few days using ordinary open-source information, this should also have been possible for the state authorities.
"So, it is actually possible to track down a driver like this. And that raises the question: why is the state unable to do so, whilst dangerous drivers are still speeding through the streets of our cities?" the MP concluded.
At the same time, the report cited by Zhelezniak contains no information as to whether law enforcement agencies opened an investigation or brought Mankivskyi to justice specifically for the incidents shown in the video.
