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Ukrainian MP Davydenko Shot Dead in His Office. Suicide Possible (Photo)

Photo: agropolit.com
Photo: agropolit.com

Circumstances of the incident are being clarified.

Today, May 23, around 19:00, People's Deputy of Ukraine Valery Nikolayevich Davydenko was found shot dead in the office on Bolshaya Vasilkovskaya Street, 4. A cleaner found the body; a pistol was lying nearby.

Sources told TK Media that Davydenko drank 400 grams of cognac, took off his watch, turned off the alarm, rolled a chair into the toilet and shot himself.

Davydenko was reportedly shot with his own service pistol, sources told the Telegram channel «LESHCHENKO HERE».

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Shot MP Davydenko. Photo: tk.media
Shot MP Davydenko. Photo: tk.media

Valery Nikolayevich Davydenko is an MP of the 8th and 9th convocations, a self-nominated candidate from constituency 208 in Chernihiv Region. He is a member of the Dovira (Trust) group and of the Committee on Economic Development. He served as Deputy Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine (2013–2014). He is survived by his wife and two daughters.

«Strana» reports that in Davydenko's constituency in Chernihiv Region, Radical Party leader Oleh Liashko will run for the Rada.