Earlier this week, Stakhiv was busy setting up five tents around Lviv for this month's election campaign.

He and a few other activists were tried for beating demonstrators in Lviv on November 7, 1997.

Dubbed the “Lviv of the East” by the Ukrainian press, the city has instead seen a resurgence of patriotism in the last months.

Aleksandra Lisowska was kidnapped from a small town not far from Lviv.