Pilot accused of shooting down MH17 kills himself

PETALING JAYA: A Ukrainian pilot falsely accused by Russia of shooting down Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 has taken his own life, The Daily Telegraph of UK reported today.
Capt Vladyslav Voloshyn, an SU-25 attack jet pilot, shot himself at home in the southern Ukrainian city of Mykolaiv on Monday.
Family members quoted by Ukrainian media said Voloshyn, 29, had been feeling depressed. Voloshyn's family members had been at home when he shot himself. His wife was said to have heard the shot.
Voloshyn had been working at Mykolaiv airport since he retired from the airforce. He had flown 33 combat missions in an SU-25 during the war between Ukrainian and Russian and separatist forces in Donbas in 2014.
Russian media and officials had accused him of shooting down MH17.
The Boeing 777 was en route from Amterdam to Kuala Lumpur when it was blown out of the sky over eastern Ukraine in July 2014, with the loss of all 298 people on board.
However, a Dutch led investigation has concluded that MH17 was shot down by a surface to air missile fired from territory controlled by Russian-backed separatists.