Oplot must have existed in 2010 for this to be possible, though according to Anna Matveeva, "Oplot (Stronghold) was established in January 2014 as an anti-Maidan group in Kharkiv by Yevgenyi Zhilin" (Matveeva, Anna (2017), Through times of trouble, p. 103). TASS stated that "Oplot" was established in 2010, partly to help the families of ex-servicemen in the militsiya and the armed forces, and partly the prevention of the heroisation of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, the financing of the excavation of the remains of the Red Army soldiers, and the care of monuments to soldiers of the Second World War. ("Здание Донецкого горсовета захватили активисты харьковской организации "Оплот"" [The offices of Donetsk city council have been seized by activists of the Kharkiv organization "Oplot"]. TASS. 16 April 2014.)