Chairman of the Kherson Regional Council Vladyslav Manher ordered and partially organized the murder of activist and advisor to Kherson mayor Kateryna Handziuk, Ukraine's Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko has said

"He is at the top of this crime. Namely he ordered and partially organized by means of financing this crime," Lutsenko told journalists in Kyiv on Monday

The prosecutor general said Manher is suspected based on testimony of witnesses.

Manher has been served a notice of suspicion for ordering the murder under Part 3 of Article 27, Paragraph 4, Paragraph 6, Paragraph 11, Paragraph 12, Part 2 of Article 115 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine," Sarhan wrote on her Facebook page on Monday.