The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has allocated 17, 2 million (733 thousand dollars) to the families of those killed and injured during the mass protests on the Maidan, reported in a statement released on the first day of the week the Cabinet on March 25. "To highlight the Ministry of social policy 17 234, 7 thousand, and among them to provide one-time cash assistance to families of persons whose death is associated with participation in mass public protest actions that took place in the period from 21 November 2013 to 21 February 2014," according to the decision of the Cabinet. The crisis of political authority broke out in Ukraine in November 2013, when the Cabinet announced a temporary halt to the European integration of the country. Numerous protests, called " euromaidan ", were launched on the Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Independence square) in Kyiv and held throughout Ukraine. They culminated in armed clashes radicals with the police, lost his life over a hundred people. In the end, the head of state Viktor Yanukovych was removed from his post, and the fresh authorities blamed the bloodshed on the former leadership of the country.