Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A ranar 5 ga Nuwamba, 1968, ya kashe kansa ta hanyar ƙona kansa a kan Khreshchatyk, babban titin Kyiv, don nuna rashin amincewa da mulkin Soviet na Ukraine, da russification da kuma mamayewar Soviet a Czechoslovakia
Ka yi haƙuri. Kafin mutuwarsa, Makukh ya yi kururuwa 'Long live free Ukraine!' A ranar 6 ga Nuwamba 1968 ofishin mai gabatar da kara na Leninsky District na birnin Kyiv ya bude shari'ar aikata laifuka a kansa saboda kashe kansa, wanda ba a san abin da ya faru ba.