A series of forensic expert studies has shown that a bullet extracted from the body of Oleksandr Muzychko, a leader of the Ukrainian nationalistic organization Right Sector, who died from a gunshot wound when security forces attempted to detain him at the end of March, and a bullet that wounded a police officer during the operation had been fired from a Makarov pistol belonging to Muzychko himself, Ukrainian Deputy Prosecutor General Oleksiy Bahanets said.

Speaking at a meeting of the Verkhovna Rada’s ad hoc investigative commission probing Muzychko’s death on Tuesday, Bahanets said the Prosecutor General’s Office was pursuing two possible theories of the activist’s death, i.e. that he was killed by members of the Sokil task force through exceeding reasonable measures necessary to detain him and that he killed himself by accidentally pulling the trigger of his pistol “in the process of struggle with police officials.”