In the capital of Ukraine, two SBU officers shot themselves almost simultaneously.
The ex-speaker of the special service, Stanislav Rechinsky, reported this on his blog and published excerpts from the police report, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“At 22:46, a message was received from the emergency duty officer of the Kiev-Svyatoshinsky district of the Kiev region about the receipt of information regarding the suicide of citizen Vovchka Oleg (colonel, last position in the SBU - deputy head of the Kiev headquarters, resigned last year) by shooting from a rifled weapon - Sauer pistol. The event took place in the Kiev-Svyatoshinsky district...
At 14.15 on “102” in Kyiv, a message was received from the wife of Sergei Nikolaevich Tkachenko, an employee of the Department of Statehood Protection of the SBU, that her husband shot himself in the head with a Makarov pistol,” Rechinsky wrote.