I'm not sure why this is relevant at all, unless the argument is: "its okay to destroy Ukraine because it was once ruled by the evil empire." Ukraine has been its own nation since 1991, and their fierce defense of their country proves they are not a "fake nation" like Putin and the writer apparently claim.
This might explain why Putinists on this forum insist that any news source---even ones they ordinarily like--is engaging in psyops and propaganda if it reports how hard the Ukrainians are fighting and how pathetic the Russians are doing.
It screws with the whole "fake country" narrative from Putin and his trolls.
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Yanukovych was removed by a vote of 328 (or thereabout) members of the Ukrainian parliament after he fled the country after unleashing a reign of terror on his country that started with stripping people naked in the snow and beating them on live television and climaxing with sniper fire, which the Russians still blame on Ukraine or "the CIA." We are told this revolution only happened because Obama gave billions of dollars to Ukraine (but actually, the money in question was given over many years by the US government) or because McCain and various Obama stooges made statements or gave speeches in support of the mass protest after it was already ongoing. IOW, Ukrainians have no mind of their own and, even after several elections, can be hypnotized by spell binding words John McCain! Or maybe millions of Ukrainians are paid by the CIA to vote the way they do!
Since that time, Ukraine has had several elections, each one affirming that a supermajority of Ukrainians are opposed to Russia's aggression.