In the last two months tensions have grown between the Ukrainian government and opposition in what began as demonstrations following President Viktor Yanukovych's decision to scrap a key pact with the European Union but has now turned into a drive to oust the president. Thousands of protestors and police have clashed in the biggest of such riots to take place in Eastern Europe where protestors have been killed fighting for what they believe is in the best interest of their country.

They say nothing can stop the power of love and it must be true: One Ukrainian anti-government protester, wearing a helmet, balaclava and bullet-proof jacket, professed his love through a megaphone, got down on one knee and proposed to his girlfriend as his comrades lit smoke flares.

He had called his girlfriend of one-and-a-half years and asked her to join him on the barricades.

"My mind is clear but my heart is beating."

Close to the lines of riot police, the man pulled out a small red box with a ring and asked her to marry him. Overcome with emotion, the young woman nodded, smiled and pulled her brown balaclava from her mouth to kiss her future husband to cheers from dozens of protesters nearby who set off fireworks and lit red flares.

A friend handed her a bunch of red roses as the man shouted the war-time nationalist slogan "Glory to Ukraine!" and protesters chanted back: "Glory to the Heroes!"

The young man had chosen to propose on a street close to Independence Square, where the deadliest clashes broke out last month.

"I've been wanting to do this for a long time but unfortunately -- or fortunately -- the revolution started so I decided to do it here."

"I've started looking at life in a different way. Everything has become a lot simpler. That's why I did it now," said the man, before taking his fiancee on a procession across the barricade back to the opposition headquarters.