A foreign citizen who was found shot dead in a Kyiv apartment on Sept. 10, did not work as an instructor of the National Guard of Ukraine, its press service has told Interfax-Ukraine.
“This is not our instructor,” a spokesman for the National Guard said in a comment at the request to confirm or deny reports on the foreigner.
Social media earlier reported that a citizen of Israel, a special forces member and an instructor of the National Guard Bar Bonen was found shot dead.
Kyiv police said that he was a foreign citizen, born in 1982, and an instructor of the National Guard of Ukraine. A starter gun converted into a traumatic one and a press card of a Ukrainian Internet portal carrying the dead man’s name were found in the flat.
Medical workers and a forensic expert examined the body and found a gunshot wound to the temple. According to preliminary conclusions, the man committed suicide. The final cause of his death will be established after a forensic medical examination.
“According to his acquaintances, the deceased man led a reclusive life lately and wrote a pessimistic post on his social media account,” the police said.
“I am a broken soul, and I didn’t open it very much to most of you. I can no longer tolerate this internal pain. I just want to say goodbye to all the people with whom I had the honor of being familiar and be close in my life…” says a message on Bar Bonen’s Facebook account posted a few hours prior to the incident.
An investigation is under way under Article 115 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (homicide). Suicide is also among the theories.
