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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.

A man threw sulfuric acid on her in front of her house on 31 July 2018 and fled. She suffered severe burns on more than 30% of her body. The Ukrainian authorities arrested five suspects. The European Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighbourhood Policy Johannes Hahn wrote on Twitter: "Attacks on civil society activists are unacceptable. Those responsible for this insidious crime must be held accountable." Handziuk first received treatment at a local hospital but was transferred to a special medical institution in Kiev soon afterwards.

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

In 2012, she volunteered for the United Nations Development Programme. She left the “Fatherland” party in 2015. During the Kherson 2015 local elections, Handziuk was an active volunteer who helped the acting mayor of Kherson, Volodymyr Mykolayenko [uk] , to win the elections. In November 2016 Handziuk become the acting manager of affairs at Kherson City Council’s executive committee.

Handziuk studied at the State University of Kherson between 2002 and 2006. She graduated in 2008 from the National Economic University in Kiev and 2016 from the National Academy of Public Administration in Kiev. Handziuk joined the political party "Fatherland" in 2003 and she quickly became the leader of its local youth wing. In 2006, she was elected a deputy of the regional council of the Kherson Oblast and the Kherson City Council [uk] for the party "Fatherland", as well as adviser to the mayor of Kherson. She participated in the Orange Revolution.

Kateryna Viktorivna Handziuk (Ukrainian: Катерина Вікторівна Гандзюк ; 17 June 1985 – 4 November 2018) was a Ukrainian civil rights and anti-corruption activist campaigner and political advisor, who exposed corruption in her hometown of Kherson. She was attacked with sulphuric acid on 31 July 2018, and died from her injuries on 4 November 2018.

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