Murder of Kateryna Handziuk

[5] After Handziuk's death, the police reclassified the case to the article "Premeditated murder" of the Criminal Code of Ukraine.

Instead, on 2 August 2018, she testified to operatives of the Department of Strategic Investigation (DSI), who visited Handziuk at her place of treatment in the Kyiv Burn Center.

Prosecutor general of Ukraine Yuriy Lutsenko took under his control the criminal proceedings regarding the attack on Kateryna Handziuk.

[7] On 3 August 2018, interior minister Arsen Avakov announced the arrest of the suspect in the attack on Handziuk, who turned out to be Nikolai Novikov.

[8] On 17 August 2018, two citizens of Ukraine were detained, who, according to the investigation, are accomplices in the organization of the assassination attempt – Vladimir Vasyanovich and Sergey Torbin.

[9] The prosecutor noted that the evidence of other participants in the case – Gorbunov, Grabchuk and Vishnevsky – indicated them as accomplices in the attempt on Handziuk's life.

[13] On 6 March 2019, Shevchenko district court suspended Manger from his duties as chairman of the Kherson regional council by 6 April 2019.

[16] In June 2023 the former head of the council for Kherson Oblast, Vladyslav Manher, was found guilty of ordering the attack on Handziuk.