A Ukrainian military pilot faulted by Russia over the 2014 bringing down of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 has slaughtered himself with a gun shot, Ukrainian media report, citing police.
Capt Vladyslav Voloshyn had denounced the Russian claim as a lie. Dutch specialists inferred that a Russian Buk rocket had pulverized the Boeing 777 fly, murdering 298 individuals.
Reports say Voloshyn shot himself at home in Mykolaiv, close to the Black Sea.
Ukraine portrayed him as a war saint.
He had flown 33 battle missions in a low-flying Su-25 ground assault fly against Russian-upheld dissident agitators in eastern Ukraine.
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As of late the 29-year-old had been accountable for the Mykolaiv airplane terminal. The southern city close Odessa is called Nikolayev by Russian speakers.
Relatives cited by Ukrainian media said he had been feeling discouraged. They were in the level when he shot himself on Sunday.
A rescue vehicle was called however he kicked the bucket in healing center.
Russian authorities not just claimed that Voloshyn's plane had shot down MH17. As indicated by another Russian hypothesis, it was a Ukrainian military Buk - never again in benefit in Russia - that brought down the aircraft.
Autonomous specialists - other than the Dutch group - rejected the Russian cases, saying the proof indicated a Buk terminated by professional Russian radicals or a Russian military unit.