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Who ordered the murder of Katya Handziuk? A year without answers

In summer 2018, a horrendous acid attack killed Ukrainian civic activist Katernya Handziuk. A year on, there’s still no answers as to who ordered the attack.

Who ordered the murder of Katya Handziuk? A year without answers
Kateryna Handziuk | Source: Facebook
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Viktor Handziuk is a respected surgeon in Ukraine. He runs a surgery department at a hospital in Kherson, in the south of the country.

Every Sunday, Viktor posts pictures of his daughter Kateryna on Facebook. In one, you see Kateryna going to school, in another – father and daughter are travelling together in Poland.

But in the last days of October, Viktor Handziuk published a very different photo of his daughter, calling it “her last selfie”. This photograph shows Kateryna Handziuk breathing through an oxygen mask, her body bound up with bandages and large pink scars covering her arms and face.