She was born in Ternivka,[citation needed] at the time in the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union (today in the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast of Ukraine).
At European Athletics Championships 2010 in Barcelona, while she was in the warm-up area few minutes before the 1st round heat, she accused a muscular problem.
She definitely regained her position in the top list of 400m hurdles of 2011 on 3 August in Donetsk during the semifinal of the Ukrainian Championship by running in 54.75.
In fact, on that semifinal race competed the Defending Olympic and World Champion Melanie Walker from Jamaica, the current European Champion Natalya Antyukh from Russia, plus two others top list runners, Queen Harrison from Usa and Anastasiya Rabchenyuk for a total of four top level athletes in a single race for only two places available for direct qualification to final.
With an outstanding performance, she was able to catch the third position of the race, being passed by World Champion Melanie Walker in the battle for second place only at last metres (that semifinal was won by Natalya Antyukh).