Dmytro Korchynsky

[citation needed] In the fall of 1992 he unsuccessfully ran for a seat in the Verkhovna Rada, placing fourth out of six in the 13th electoral district.

[4] Anton Shekhovtsov, a specialist on far-right organizations, spoke of Korchynsky as being “widely considered an agent provocateur, and his "Bratstvo" already took part in several actions that were meant to provoke police suppression of peaceful protests”.

[6] A few days earlier on 25 December 2003, Ukrayinska Pravda received some correspondence from other journalists about intentions of the government to discredit opposition by connecting it to the problem with the arrested Ukrainian plane (Antonov An-124 Ruslan) in Canada.

[9] In summer of 2004 in Kerch Bratstvo organized a strike at the Zaliv Shipbuilding yard, co-owner of which was David Zhvania, a member of Our Ukraine.

[15] In 2013 during the Euromaidan protests, 300 members of the Bratstvo organization led by Korchynsky attacked the presidential administration building (of then president Viktor Yanukovych).

[19] After the Revolution of Dignity, Korchynsky returned to Ukraine and founded the St. Mary's battalion to fight against pro-Russian separatists in the Russo-Ukrainian War.

[13][14] In the same year, he met with Putin's political technologist Vladislav Surkov on a Moscow forum, where Korchynsky spoke against "orange infiltrations".

After an arrest warrant in Ukraine in winter 2013, according press reports, Korchynsky may have found refuge in either Russia or its separatist enclave Transnistria.

Nationalism researcher Andreas Umland concludes that Korchynsky's Bratstvo "have a contradictory, if not paradoxical history of cooperation with anti-Euromaydan actors and the Russian neo-Nazi scene" and "avid anti-Ukrainian Kremlin-related organizations".