“These a*****s, I hate them,” said 12-year-old Ilya about the local police in the Ukrainian port town of Kakhovka, located on the banks of the Dnipro in the Kherson region.
Hromadske: How a murder in south Ukraine triggered anti-police protests
Dozens of demonstrators gather in front of the Kakhovka police headquarters to protest against police brutality on Jan. 4, 2020. The protests started in Kahovka, a city 600 kilometers south of Kyiv, after a former police officer allegedly murdered local Volodymyr Chebukin on Jan. 1.
