After weeks of protests and intermittent clashes between demonstrators and police in Kyiv and other parts of Ukraine, the country’s police and security forces are stretched thin. It remains to be seen whether or not President Viktor Yanukovych can continue to count on their loyalty.
One video purported to show a masked Ukrainian Security Service [SBU] officer in the Western region of Ivano-Frankivsk announcing his resignation and that of several of his officers.
The video, which was released last week, claimed the unidentified man was a member of the SBU’s elite Alpha special-operations unit.
Another video posted on January 30 purports to show a former officer of the Interior Ministry’s special semi-militarized troops discussing widespread discontent among his former comrades facing the barricades in Kyiv.
After weeks of mass demonstrations, videos like these –
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