“Patriots for Life”, a civic organization supervised by MP Ilya Kiva, which recently came into a spotlight as a result of two conflict episodes with a rivaling group, has reportedly been hiring men who had been part of Viktor Yanukovych’s riot police during the EuroMaidan Revolution in 2014.
UNIAN: Ukrainian MP recruiting Yanukovych-era riot police officers to his ‘activist group’
Members of the Berkut attack and arrest student protesters on the morning of Nov. 30, 2013. The violent crackdown helped catalyze huge protests that eventually brought down ex-President Viktor Yanukovych.
