The initial goals of Automaidan included the resignation of the Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych, as well as Ukraine's alignment with the EU.The movement consisted of drivers who protected the protest, supply revolutionary camps, disobey the Azarov, block streets and bring the Euromaidan to "the ruling elite's" doorsteps.
[3] The kidnapping of Bulatov condemned by many, including the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Catherine Ashton.
[2] In a statement from her office on 31 January, she said "I am appalled by the obvious signs of prolonged torture and cruel treatment of Auto-Maidan organiser Dmytro Bulatov, who was found alive yesterday after having been missing for a week.
If his demand was not met within half an hour Mr. Coba promised that Automaidan would go to the parliament building and peacefully picket it until parliamentary deputies cancel the "dictatorship laws".
[11] On 31 October 2015 100 AutoMaidan vehicles protested at the mansion of president Petro Poroshenko demanding the resignation of Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin.
[14] The idea of a motorized socio-political protest force was widely accepted and reproduced in numerous regional organizations in Ukraine as well as abroad.
[15] After the violent dispersion of Automaidan in Cherkasy on 27 February 2014[16] many of their activists separated into a new group called Autodozor (Ukrainian: Автодозор, literally "Car-watch").