Is there any evidence that the base was in any danger? This is all a staged event you know that, right? Hegemony was scheduled to be the final event in the Sochi Olympics.
Obviously, the President fled the country in the face of protests; he could not control the situation.
An “unscheduled” change in government, especially one that joined the EU - which comes with TONS of legal requirements - could conceivably mean a “new” government that would try to eject the Russians from the base.
They appear to be wanting to make sure that this does not happen.
If Cuba had a revolution, I’m sure the US would move to secure its base in Guantanamo.
“Is there any evidence that the base was in any danger?”
YES.
The far-right deputies in the puschists’ Ukrainian parliment proposed a law to abolish the treaty concerning the lease Russia has on Sebastopol military base in Crimea until 2042.