[1][5] After that she studied at the Kyiv State Academy of Water Transport where, after three years, she received an accounting qualification.

[1][2] In 2017, as mayor, she visited World War II veteran Fyodor Klimenko of Motyzhin at a nursing home in Gruzskoe and congratulated his efforts towards victory over Nazis.

[1] On 27 February 2022, Sukhenko posted to Facebook after the arrival of the Russian army, "There are foreign bastards in our village.

After the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine began, thousands of people had fled to the village from Kyiv, and in early March, she organised a civilian evacuation convoy.

[4] According to Ukrainian officials and local residents, on 23 March, Sukhenko, her husband, Igor, and their son Oleksandr (a professional footballer who had played for SC Chaika Petropavlivska Borshchahivka) were abducted by Russian soldiers, tortured, then executed by shooting, and buried in a shallow pit in a forest.