Kateryna Serhiivna Prokopenko (; born 1995) is a Ukrainian illustrator, public activist, and volunteer. She is head of the Association of Azovstal Defenders' Families NGO and the "'Azovstal' Defenders' Families support" charitable fund. She is married to Denys Prokopenko.
Biography Kateryna Prokopenko was born in Kyiv, Ukraine, in 1995.
She met Denys Prokopenko in 2015,С. Мусаєва. Катерина Прокопенко: СІЗО, де знаходяться захисники Маріуполя, переповнене, їжа та вода потребують покращення, Українська правда, 5 June 2022. and married him in 2019.
Russian invasion of Ukraine
Before Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, she worked as an illustrator (creative pseudonym "Koza rohata"М. Куряча. Катерина Прокопенко: Теракт в Оленівці — це кров на руках тих організацій, які виступали гарантами для захисників «Азовсталі», Новинарня, 24 August 2022.). Later she started volunteering.
On 11 May 2022, Kateryna Prokopenko and Yuliia Fedosiuk met Pope Francis in the Vatican and addressed him with a plea to help in saving Ukrainian defenders from "Azovstal" in Mariupol in Donetsk Oblast. After the Ukrainian servicemen were captured by the Russians, Kateryna, together with other "azovtsi" (Azovian) families, put all their efforts towards returning them home.N. Liubchenkova. Azov wives: 'This is not a game or a reality show. The truth is horrible', Euronews, 19 May 2022.
23 March 2023, Prokopenko filed a petition on the president's website asking to dedicate the day of 20 May to commemorate the defenders of Mariupol. As of 7 June, the petition accumulated 27,000 signatures.
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