Kiev, Ukraine (CNN) -- A bloodied but defiant activist -- his face scarred, an ear severely cut, his body "beaten black and blue" -- has become the latest symbol of the turmoil in Ukraine, stirring fresh anger in that country and elsewhere as the political standoff drags on.
The visibly battered Dmytro Bulatov reappeared Thursday, more than a week after he went missing amid anti-government protests. He told reporters he'd been kidnapped and tortured by his captors -- who, he claimed, "crucified me" by piercing his hands -- before being dumped in a forest. Video footage shows blood caked on his head where he said his ear was cut.
Bulatov, who organized convoys of motorists as part of the so-called AutoMaidan protest movement, said his abductors -- seemingly unable to grasp that protesters were there on their own free will -- asked him who was funding the effort (Laura Smith-Spark. Greg Botelho and Diana Magnay, CNN).
That the US is appalled by what has been occurring and that they push for the president of the Ukraine to put a stop to this.The reason for the protesters is for wider constitutional reforms and shifting more power away from the President and onto the Parliament. Defense Minister Pavel Lebedev says that the military will stay out of it and abide by the law. However it becomes controversial when the President saying, "saying that it had "fulfilled all its obligations" and that opposition leaders were stoking people's anger for their own gain". Although former president of Ukraine is states that the opposition has no full control over over the protest. So until the can come to a pact that meets the protesters demands things might not change. And the protesting could only get worse.
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