diff --git a/.ci/pitest-suppressions/pitest-coding-1-suppressions.xml b/.ci/pitest-suppressions/pitest-coding-1-suppressions.xml
index e3bb01fbde1..970689ae90a 100644
--- a/.ci/pitest-suppressions/pitest-coding-1-suppressions.xml
+++ b/.ci/pitest-suppressions/pitest-coding-1-suppressions.xml
@@ -242,13 +242,4 @@
     <description>removed call to com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/api/DetailAST::getType</description>
     <lineContent>&amp;&amp; currentStatementAst.getType() != TokenTypes.RCURLY) {</lineContent>
   </mutation>
-
-  <mutation unstable="false">
-    <sourceFile>VariableDeclarationUsageDistanceCheck.java</sourceFile>
-    <mutatedClass>com.puppycrawl.tools.checkstyle.checks.coding.VariableDeclarationUsageDistanceCheck</mutatedClass>
-    <mutatedMethod>searchVariableUsageExpressions</mutatedMethod>
-    <mutator>org.pitest.mutationtest.engine.gregor.mutators.RemoveConditionalMutator_EQUAL_IF</mutator>
-    <description>removed conditional - replaced equality check with true</description>
-    <lineContent>&amp;&amp; currentStatementAst.getType() != TokenTypes.RCURLY) {</lineContent>
-  </mutation>
 </suppressedMutations>
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/coding/VariableDeclarationUsageDistanceCheck.java b/src/main/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/coding/VariableDeclarationUsageDistanceCheck.java
index 01b38a36690..34fb64fe233 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/coding/VariableDeclarationUsageDistanceCheck.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/coding/VariableDeclarationUsageDistanceCheck.java
@@ -687,8 +687,7 @@ else if (variableUsageExpressions.isEmpty()) {
         final List<DetailAST> variableUsageExpressions = new ArrayList<>();
         int distance = 0;
         DetailAST currentStatementAst = statementAst;
-        while (currentStatementAst != null
-                && currentStatementAst.getType() != TokenTypes.RCURLY) {
+        while (currentStatementAst != null) {
             if (currentStatementAst.getFirstChild() != null) {
                 if (isChild(currentStatementAst, variableAst)) {
                     variableUsageExpressions.add(currentStatementAst);