Galina Vitkorovna Danilchenko (born 5 July 1964) is a Russian and Ukrainian accountant and politician who was installed by Russia as the acting mayor of
Melitopol
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during the
2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
On 24 February 2022, in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, which began in 2014. The invasion has resulted in tens of thousands of deaths on both sides. It has caused Europe's largest refugee crisis since World War II. An ...
, following the kidnapping of
Ivan Fedorov by the Russian military. She was a former member of the Melitopol City Council, elected in 2015, and became its secretary soon thereafter.
Biography
Danilchenko was born 5 July 1964
in
Orlovo, a village in the Melitopol district.
She studied at the She graduated from the
. She worked in a kindergarten for a few weeks and worked in a laboratory at a hydraulic tractor plant.
After completing a specialization in economics and auditing, she worked as an accountant at a motor plant. In 2000, she began working as an accountant for Melitopol Plain Bearing Plant until 2015.
She is now the director of the factory.
The company is owned by
Yevhen Balytskyi
Yevgeny Vitalyevich Balitsky (russian: Евгений Витальевич Бали́цкий, uk, Євген Віталійович Балицький, translit= Yevhen Vitaliiovych Balytskyi; born 10 December 1969) is a Russian and Ukrainia ...
.
Balitsky suggested that Danilchenko enter politics.
Until 2015, she was a member of the
Party of Regions
The Party of Regions ( uk, Партія регіонів, Partiia rehioniv, ; russian: Партия регионов, Partiya regionov) was a pro-Russian political party in Ukraine formed in late 1997 that then grew to be the biggest party of Uk ...
.
In 2015, she was elected to the Melitopol City Council as a member of the
Opposition Bloc
russian: Оппозиционный блок
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and was appointed its secretary by Balytskyi soon thereafter.
In 2021, Danylchenko was nominated to the position of director of the Zaporizhzhia Regional Contact Centre.
2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
Danilchenko, former member of the City Council, was installed by the Russian occupation forces as acting mayor on 12 March 2022, the day after mayor
Ivan Fedorov's abduction by the Russian military. At the same time she announced that the City Council was being abolished and replaced by a "committee of people's deputies".
She urged city residents to accept "the new reality in order to start living in a new way as soon as possible." Danylchenko thanked the head of
Chechnya
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,
Ramzan Kadyrov
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, for
humanitarian aid
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.
On 13 March 2022
Iryna Venediktova
Iryna Valentynivna Venediktova ( uk, Ірина Валентинівна Венедіктова; born 21 September 1978) is a Ukrainian politician, academic, and lawyer, previously a prosecutor general of Ukraine from March 2020 to July 2022. S ...
,
Prosecutor General of Ukraine
The prosecutor general of Ukraine (also procurator general of Ukraine, uk, Генеральний прокурор України) heads the system of official prosecution in courts known as the Office of the Prosecutor General ( uk, Офіс ...
, opened an investigation against Danilchenko for the crime of
treason
Treason is the crime of attacking a state authority to which one owes allegiance. This typically includes acts such as participating in a war against one's native country, attempting to overthrow its government, spying on its military, its diplo ...
for attempting to set up an occupying government in Melitopol; the investigation was opened at the request of the Melitopol City Council.
On the same day, Danylchenko announced that Russian TV channels would be broadcast in Melitopol, claiming that "a great deficit of trustworthy information being circulated" existed.
According to the
Security Service of Ukraine
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(SBU) and
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, Danylchenko does not wield power as mayor of Melitopol, and is instead a front for
, who she worked under prior to entering politics.
.
but was not satisfied by his presidency. In 2017, she called
the worst president, and stated that she regretted voting for him.