Halyna Danylchenko

Biography Danilchenko was born 5 July 1964 in Orlovo, a village in the Melitopol district. She studied at the She graduated from the Russian State Agrarian University – Moscow Timiryazev Agricultural Academy. She worked in a kindergarten for a few weeks and worked in a laboratory at a hydraulic tractor plant. The company is owned by Yevhen Balytskyi. In 2015, she was elected to the Melitopol City Council as a member of the Opposition Bloc was installed by the Russian occupation forces as acting mayor on 12 March 2022, the day after mayor Ivan Fedorov's abduction by the Russian military. At the same time she announced that the City Council was being abolished and replaced by a "committee of people's deputies". She urged city residents to accept "the new reality in order to start living in a new way as soon as possible." Danylchenko thanked the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, for humanitarian aid. On the same day, Danylchenko announced that Russian TV channels would be broadcast in Melitopol, claiming that "a great deficit of trustworthy information being circulated" existed.

Sanctions

She was sanctioned by the UK government in 2022 in relation to the Russo-Ukrainian War.

Personal life Danilchenko lives in in the Melitopol Raion. She voted for Viktor Yushchenko but was not satisfied by his presidency. In 2017, she called Petro Poroshenko the worst president, and stated that she regretted voting for him.