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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Emma Graham-Harrison and Vera Mironova in Kyiv

The Kyiv unit patrolling the streets as law and order cracks under war

Going through wallet for documents while armed masked man holds torch
Those who break the curfew are stopped and searched. Photograph: Ed Ram/The Observer

The call came around midnight. There was a suspicious man poking around a rundown complex of garages and workshops, police had heard a gunshot and so they wanted backup.

The men of the Maidan group rolled out of the bodyshop that served as their headquarters, into a couple of vans with personalised Maidan numberplates and their own ambulance, and set off into the eerie quiet of curfew-hours Kyiv.

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