Lviv Takes Law Into Own Hands as Protests Split Ukraine
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As police fled Lviv on Ukraine’s western frontier with the European Union, Marko Slyusarchuk donned a yellow vest and was deputized.
The 19-year-old engineering student answered the mayor’s call for volunteers to patrol Lviv’s rain-drenched pedestrian zone and downtown streets to keep the peace. Officers deserted as protests that started a day’s drive away in the capital Kiev spread across the nation and toppled the government.