By Matthias Williams and Margaryta Chornokondratenko KIEV (Reuters) – The launch of Ukraine's new police patrol force last year sparked an internet craze of citizens posting selfies with newly recruited officers. Vladyslav Vlasiuk, a lawyer by training who rose through patrol police ranks to become Chief of Staff of the National Police, quit in March, "exhausted" by the pushback against change, he told Reuters in his first media interview since. The experience he described shows how fragile Ukraine's progress in transforming itself into a Western-facing free market democracy could prove to be.

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