Cause of death -- fall from the 10th floor \nThe day before yesterday morning, Colonel Alexander Sudakov -- head of a department of one of the main directorates of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine -- threw himself from the 10th floor of a residential building. \nThe concierge of the 18-story building No. 16/4 on Azerbaidzhanska Street, with whom we spoke yesterday, said she heard some strange sound resembling a strong impact: \n-- I looked out into the courtyard, walked around the building, but found nothing, -- says Valentina. \nThe alarm was raised by Ekaterina Verbovaya from the sixth apartment on the second floor. She accidentally looked out the window and on the technical platform saw the sprawled body of a man in military uniform... \nThe first to identify him was Sudakov's neighbor, also a colonel. They felt for a pulse -- dead. They called the police and the ambulance. Then investigators, experts, and prosecutors arrived... \nAs was established by the preliminary investigation (the same is confirmed by the journalistic investigation of "Segodnya"), the day before, Alexander Yevgenyevich returned home late, around 12 midnight. According to eyewitnesses, he was depressed and upset. On the morning of the 12th, as always, he got ready for service. He left the apartment at the beginning of the seventh hour. But he took the elevator not down (the Sudakov family lives on the fifth floor), but up... On the technical floor of the tenth floor, he apparently stood for a while, for some reason took off his cap, put down the sandwiches prepared by his wife and... \nWhen we arrived at the said building yesterday afternoon, the concierges said that Alexander Sudakov would be buried not in Kyiv (presumably in Melitopol, where he is from, and the coffin had allegedly already been sent there by plane). Relatives and colleagues left in two cars. No one answered the doorbell. \nA close acquaintance of Alexander Yevgenyevich said in an interview with "Segodnya" that he had taken the tragedy in Novobohdanivka very much to heart and was seriously worried. However, outwardly he did not harbor any suicidal plans. Some time ago they had talked about a Ground Forces officer who had hanged himself. Sudakov spoke negatively about such a step: supposedly, this is not a way out, only a mentally unbalanced person could do that. And now he acted in a similar way. \nSeeing the lifeless body, his wife Elena screamed: "What have you done?!" and in despair also tried to throw herself down -- she was barely restrained. The Sudakovs have an adult daughter. She lived with her parents. \nThere may be several versions. First. The colonel had a direct connection to the disposal of ammunition at the 275th base in Novobohdanivka and took his own life, carrying some secret with him. By the way, a few days ago he returned from Melitopol... Second. Sudakov could have been driven to suicide, and now, under any scenario, there will be someone to blame for everything that is already known and will still be clarified. The third version (that he was forcibly thrown) is so far ruled out. We asked whether anyone strange had appeared in the building the evening before or on the fateful morning. No, various people answered firmly, the residents and concierges here are very vigilant -- they would certainly have noticed. The colonel did not drink and did not smoke