A BRIT medic has been discovered lifeless in Ukraine and should have been murdered with deadly overdose, it has been claimed.
Katherine Mielniczuk, 26, died from opioid intoxication and Ukrainian cops are probing her demise.
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Katherine Mielniczuk went to Ukraine after Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022, compelled to make use of her medical expertise to assist these in want.
The younger girl, who was affectionately often called “Kat” by her friends, is known to have served in Ukraine as an teacher and fight medic with a gaggle which known as itself Menace Medics.
She died within the early hours of Christmas Eve in jap Ukraine again in 2023 together with her colleagues making the tragic discover.
Police initially mentioned they didn’t imagine the 26-year-old’s demise was suspicious.
However questions have now been raised if Katherine’s demise concerned “foul play” earlier than she was discovered lifeless in her mattress.
And a coroner has demanded to know if somebody “administered one thing with out her consent” earlier than her colleagues found her lifeless physique.
Cops have now reportedly launched an “ongoing” homicide investigation into Kat’s demise, in keeping with the Mirror.
Assistant coroner Ivor Collett instructed the court docket in Croydon: “We all know that the police authorities in Sloviansk did provoke an investigation into Katherine’s demise underneath article 115 of their felony code coping with murder.
“The newest from them is that the investigation is ongoing.”
Chatting with the Mielniczuk household’s solicitors, he added: “Has there been foul play? Has somebody administered one thing with out Katherine’s consent?
“Has somebody put them into her system with out her being prepared?
“What we’re actually involved with is what occurred whereas she was a fight medic in Ukraine.”
The 26-year-old, who graduated in chemistry on the College of Bristol, spent nearly two years risking her life to supply medical provides and emergency care to injured Ukrainian and international fighters.
Kat travelled to essentially the most unstable stretches of the frontline and incomes herself the nickname “Apache”.
Her household, from Westerham in Kent, mentioned in a earlier assertion: “She devoted her life to serving to others, as a medic, as a scientist and researcher, and as a pal.
“She volunteered her final 18 months in Ukraine, working in logistical help and as a fight medic everywhere in the nation.
“It’s unattainable to actually convey what an unimaginable girl Katherine was or how deeply and broadly she was cherished and shall be missed.
“Kasia is gone, however the infinite heat, love and style she delivered to the world won’t ever be misplaced.”
A donation fund was set as much as help Katherine’s household by serving to them cowl the prices of flying to Ukraine and having Katherine’s physique returned to the UK.
One particular person, who known as Katherine a “pricey pal”, posted within the fund: “I’ll ceaselessly miss our hours-long telephone calls, the place I might discuss to you about something and every thing, and strolling dogs from the animal shelter collectively.”
One other wrote: “At college you have been at all times somebody who I might flip to and seemed out for me. I’m actually going to overlook you. I’ll see you once I’m older xx.”
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