"Titushky"

„Titushky” are young, athletic people, rented and paid for by people associated with the Party of Regions and the former President Viktor Yanukovich, during Maidan protests (2014-2015). Their aim was to provoke and combat the participants of the protests. The subsequent investigation revealed that the “Titushky” were armed with firearms by the police. Their name comes from Wadim Titushka, who attacked two Ukrainian journalists in Kiev in May 2013. In the photographs: “Titushky” during the clashes of February 18, 2014 in Kiev.

Who was shooting during Euromaidan? Four years have passed, and Ukraine is still trying to find the guilty ones.

On 18-20 February, the Ukrainians commemorated for the fourth time the tragic ending of the Euromaidan – peaceful protests, which turned into bloody clashes. In those days, candles burn in the centre of Kiev, a mournful music can be heard, and people leave flowers where the protesters were killed. The victims are known as the […]

The Nationalists want a “New Ukrainian Order”

In the centre of Kiev, at the end of January, 600 people in black and grey uniforms swore upon “the loyalty to the Ukrainian nation”. However, they were neither soldiers nor policemen, but members of the paramilitary organization called the National Teams. They claimed they wanted to introduce “Ukrainian order” on the streets of the […]