After the Maidan events of 2013 and 2014, Ukraine has seen a significant rise in so-called right wing organizations. They are known for creating some of the volunteer battalions that fought rebels in the country's east, as well as taking actions against Russian businesses across Ukraine. CGTN's Aljosa Milenkovic was in Kiev to explore the rise of Ukraine's far right.

Several dozens of members of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, the OUN, have gathered on a Saturday morning at Kiev's main city square. There we've met with their leader Mykola Kohanivskyi. We asked whether he's bothered when they are labeled as a "far right" organization.

MYKOLA KOHANIVSKYI LEADER, ORGANIZATION OF UKRAINIAN NATIONALISTS "If they want to call nationalists 'far right', let them. I am proud of it. Because we are not going to keep silent, we are acting. We burn their banks, we are taking their offices, we take the weapons and go to war as volunteers, for our motherland. If it is right radicalism - then yes, we are right radicals."

Here is a YouTube video from 2016 with Kohanivskyi leading the storming of the Russian Alfa Bank offices in Kiev, throwing stones at the glass doors. A scene that's still not rare, even these days across the country. The latest in the string of such events happened here at the US fast food restaurant chain KFC. It was attacked just days ago by one of the right wing groups, because it is supposedly part of a Russian-owned franchise business. Now, police officers are standing guard, indefinitely postponing its opening. And it is not just Russian businesses being targeted. Just recently, an LGBT gathering was attacked in the center of Kiev. As people from an NGO called "Insight" are saying, these kinds of attacks have increased dramatically.

ULYANA MOVCHAN INSIGHT "All of this situation started last year. So, we have attacks on different events, not only of our organization but on all events on human rights across the whole territory of Ukraine. These groups are moving to different cities, they have transport, so they have the money."

Movchan says these groups are actually just tools for applying political pressure by some interest groups, and that their funding is most likely coming from abroad. On the other side, mainstream political parties do not consider these far right groups as any threat to the current political system.

OLEKSIY RYABCHYN MP, BATKIVSHCHYNA POLITICAL PARTY "We don't see this as a huge problem. This is very overestimated problem. This is usual scenes to have when the country is in war. But basically if you could see our current parliament, we have only one out of 423 members of parliament, who could be considered as a far right person."

Overestimated or not, the number of far right organizations in Ukraine is significant. And many of them exist because of the Maidan events.

ALJOSA MILENKOVIC KIEV "This is where many far-right groups began their resurgence in Ukraine - Maidan Square, located in the center of capital of Kiev, groups labeled as radical took the front lines against the government."

In the constant tensions that are enshrouding all of Ukraine, it appears there is not much political will to deal with these organizations, particularly as they have been seen as useful for pushing various political agendas. Aljosa Milenkovic, CGTN, Kiev.