By Kateryna Serhatskova
February 28, 2014  Ukrayinska Pravda.Life
Translated by Olia Knight
Edited by Isis Wisdom
Source: http://life.pravda.com.ua/society/2014/02/28/154600/

Three months of forceful confrontation. A couple thousand wounded, almost 100 killed, over 300 people missing – this is the outcome of revolutionary events in Ukraine. On the day when “Berkut” riot police first beat people on Maidan, it was impossible to imagine what the peaceful act of protest would result in.

On that same day, November 30, 2013, a civil initiative was created that is now known, by those people who are more or less informed about events in Ukraine, as – “Euromaidan SOS.”

On Novemeber 30, 2013, the “Center for Civil Liberties” organization was supposed to hold a big all-Ukrainian seminar. It never happened. Instead, these community activists began to think about how they could really help those who suffered at the hands of the “Berkut” [special forces] riot…