In July 2018, a group of men attacked outspoken Kherson municipal official Kateryna Gandziuk with sulfuric acid. Three months later, she died of severe burns. The crime remains unsolved.
To demand a proper investigation of the Gandziuk murder, about 50 protesters came to the President’s Office building on April 27 in Kyiv. They brought a banner that reads “Zelensky! When will Manger, Ryshchuk, and Gordeev be sent to prison for the murder of Gandziuk?” and they were burning flares and shouting, “Who has ordered the killing of Katya Gandziuk?”
Half an hour later, prosecutor Andriy Seniuk and Iuliia Mendel, a press secretary of Ukraine’s president, came out of the President’s Office building to speak with the protesters. Deputy General Prosecutor Oleksiy Symonenko joined the discussion. Nevertheless, protesters were insisting that prosecutors are sabotaging the murder case.
After the rally in front of the President’s Office building, protesters marched to the apartment building where lives Prosecutor General Iryna Venediktova. They continued their rally there, burning flares and shouting “Venediktova, come out!”
On the pavement, they wrote a sign that reads, “A friend of those who have murdered Gandziuk lives here.” Half an hour later, they ended the rally.
