Violent protests against alleged police brutality erupted late on Jan. 4 in the city of Kakhovka in Kherson Oblast in what some saw as a deja vu of similar police-related unrest under ex-presidents Viktor Yanukovych and Petro Poroshenko.

The protests started in Kakhovka, 600 kilometers south of Kyiv, after a former police officer allegedly murdered local Volodymyr Chebukin on Jan. 1. The main eyewitness to the murder was a police officer acquainted with the suspect.