Kateryna Handziuk, who died in 2018 following an acid attack, was brought up today because on April 25 — when Marie Yovanovitch got the call telling her to leave Kiev — Yovanovitch was posthumously awarding Handziuk the 'Woman of Courage' award
Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney, a Democrat from New York, asked Yovanovitch,"Why would somebody attack her with acid? There are easier ways to kill people. Why did they do it with acid?""I think they wanted her out of the way, but I think the message was this could happen to you, too, if you continue her work," Yovanovitch answered."That's what happens when you go up against corrupt people in Ukraine?" Maloney asked.
Initially, a criminal case was launched under a"hooliganism" offense but reclassified as"assault with the intent of intimidation" due to public pressure, Ukrainian news agencies reported at the time. A few weeks prior to her death, Handziuk recorded an anti-corruption message from her hospital bed saying,"I know I look bad now ... but I'm sure that I look much better than fairness and justice in Ukraine.
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