Kateryna Handziuk

Education and career Handziuk was born on 17 June 1985 in Kherson (then a city in the Ukrainian SSR of the USSR, now Ukraine).

In 2012, she volunteered for the United Nations Development Programme. During the Kherson 2015 local elections, Handziuk was an active volunteer who helped the acting mayor of Kherson, Volodymyr Mykolayenko, to win the elections.

Death

Banner asking to investigate Handziuk's attack during a football match of the FC Dynamo Kyiv in the 2018–19 UEFA Champions League in August 2018, which in Ukrainian reads, "Pardon, so who ordered [an attack on] Handziuk?"

A man threw sulfuric acid on her in front of her house on 31 July 2018 and fled. Handziuk first received treatment at a local hospital but was transferred to a special medical institution in Kyiv soon afterward.

Handziuk died on 4 November 2018. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko confirmed in the evening of the same day the death of Handziuk in a Kyiv hospital. He called on the police to do everything to clarify the case.

Former United States Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch mentioned in testimony on 15 November 2019 before the United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence impeachment inquiry against Donald Trump that she was honoring Kateryna Handziuk on 25 April, when she received a phone call from Washington, DC to leave Ukraine.

In June 2023 the former head of the council for Kherson Oblast, Vladyslav Manher, and his assistant, Oleksii Levin, were both found guilty of her murder. They were sentenced to 10 years in prison, and fined ₴15 million ($406,000) as victim compensation to her relatives.

Legacy In November 2022, as part of a derussification campaign, Kyiv's White Sea Street was renamed to .