Dmytro Tymchuk, the coordinator of the Information Resistance (IR) group, MP of the People's Front faction, fatally wounded himself at his home in Kyiv on Wednesday during the cleaning of a pistol that he received as an award, MP Anton Gerashchenko has said.

"An hour ago, a patriot of Ukraine and my friend Dmytro Tymchuk inflicted on himself a mortal wound at home when cleaning a pistol he was awarded," wrote Gerashchenko on his Twitter account on Wednesday afternoon.

According to him, an investigative team is working on the spot of the tragedy.