BBC Newsnight investigated in 2014, links between the Ukrainian government and Neo-Nazis

In 2014, before the russophobic media narratives, the BBC Newsnight's Gabriel Gatehouse investigated the links between the Ukrainian government and Neo-Nazis.

“In place of the defiant speeches, the sombre strains of Beethoven -now ring out over Independence Square, this revolution is moving into a new phase. But amidst the flowers and the children's tribute, flashes of something more sinister. Groups of armed men, struck through the square with dubious iconography. -that yellow armband is a Wolfsangel, a German symbol used by several SS divisions during the Second World War, far right graffiti is appearing, dubbed on the walls of the city.

The people who brought down the government were overwhelmingly ordinary Ukrainians, students and doctors, workers and even families, people who simply refused to back down. But the most organised and perhaps the most effective were a small number of far-right groups, when it came to confrontations with the police, it was often the nationalists, who were the loudest and the most violent.

A group calling itself the Right Sector -is perhaps the largest, its members can be seen marching around Kyiv in columns of about a dozen, mostly they carry baseball bats, sometimes they carry guns. We met these men posing for pictures outside the burnt out remains of what was once their headquarters.”