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[Even the far-left newspaper, The Guardian, who hates Putin more than anyone, admits it was a coup:

“Ukraine’s relations with Russia have been fraught since the toppling of the pro-Russian president Viktor Yanukovych in a coup in 2014.”

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jan/24/autonomy-eastern-ukraine-crisis-nato-russia-minsk

Or are you saying The Guardian is controlled by the Kremlin too?]

To the extent it was a coup, it was a coup against a dictator. Now, the Guardian thinks Trump was involved in a coup attempt.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jul/03/explosive-testimony-suggest-trump-was-set-on-a-coup-that-evokes-americas-darkest-hour

So the Guardian has pretty flexible definitions of what a coup is. Yeltsin mounted a coup against Gorbachev, ending the Soviet Union. Was that a bad thing? Ultimately, against a dictator looking to entrench himself in power, you either mount a coup or a violent revolution. The idea that a change of government in Ukraine is a pretext to conquer and annex it would be like saying the coup in Grenada was a good reason for the US to conquer and annex it. Uncle Sam restored democracy and left. Russia is annexing land right and left.

it was a coup against a dictator

Yanukovych won a very close election in 2010 and the Ukrainians were furious about it. They thought the Orange Revolution would last forever, but it only lasted five years. After the Yanukovych election, the Ukrainians knew they would eventually have to disenfranchise the Russian half of their country.