[citation needed] Some members of Borotba, including Dennis Levine, attempted to recruit protesters to the Confederation of Independent Trade Unions of Ukraine to fight against increased public transport costs in Kyiv.
[14] Borotba claims that after the revolution of Dignity, far-right nationalists received too much power and control over important ministries and agencies including defense, anti-corruption and national security, education, agriculture and the environment, as well as the office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine.
[15] Borotba has condemned what they considered a "Western-backed"[16] and "fascist" February 2014 "coup" in Kyiv and called for a socialist revolution in Ukraine against the government of "ultra-nationalists and Nazis".
[23] In Kharkiv, Borotba activists claim to have printed 100,000 leaflets and 10,000 posters persuading the voters to boycott the presidential election in May 2014, since they considered it unrepresentative, radical rightist, and illegitimate.
[26] The leader of the Odesan regional organisation of Borotba, Aleksey Albu, fled to Russian-annexed Crimea, where he founded a "Committee for the Liberation of Odesa" on 24 May 2014 together with representatives of the Russian nationalist party Rodina and of the far-right organization "Slavic Unity".
[33] Kirichuk responded to many of the accusations levelled against the organisation, especially with regard to their support for separatists in the South and East of Ukraine, in an interview with Andrej Hunko of Die Linke.
[34] In October 2016, the Ukrainian hacker group Cyber Hunta released more than a gigabyte of emails and other material from the office of Vladislav Surkov, one of Vladimir Putin's assistants.