 On February 19, 2014, on the website of SBU Yakymenko announced that Security Service of Ukraine and Anti-Terrorist Center initiated an "anti-terrorist operation" against protesters of the Euromaidan.On February 20, 2014 on the streets of Kiev appeared snipers and special assigned units of MVS and SBU.On February 22, 2014 the Ukrainian parliament installed a parliamentary commissioner to check the SBU activities, Valentyn Nalyvaichenko who the next day announced that all leadership of Security Service of Ukraine quit.