On July 16, 2021, an activist’s car was torched for the second time in six months in Rubizhne, a town in Luhansk region. On July 15, in Dnipro, two unknown persons assaulted a local human rights defender. On June 18, a car belonging to the daughter of an Odessa-based activist was burned to the frame. On June 22, something similar happened to an eco-activist in Kyiv.
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Protesters listen on Sept. 27, 2018, to a video address from Kateryna Gandziuk, a whistleblower official from the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson. Men attacked her with sulphuric acid on July 31, 2018. She died from her injuries, including acid burns to over 40 percent of her body, on Nov. 4, 2018. The suspected organizers, high-ranking politicians in Kherson Oblast, remain under investigation.
