Yanukovich did a 180 degree u-turn regarding participation in the EU, and instead tried to ink an agreement with Moscow instead, which is what set off the Maidan revolution. Then he flees to....Moscow! What more do you want?????
Your lawyerly arguments are irrelevant. We aren't dealing with honorable people here, we're dealing with Russians. I've got books full of evidence of Russian perfidy in Ukraine prior to and after 2014 in my library, written by respectable historians. Not your colleagues' anonymous yewtoob videos. Well researched and densely footnoted. Online timelines published by news organizations like BBC from 2014 bear them out.
Or shall we talk about a REAL coup attempt from 2014, led by one O. Bahtiyarov, complete with Molotov cocktails, intending to overthrow the interim government left in place after Yanukovich fled. Funded by a Russian entity calling itself the "Eurasian Youth Union'. Much more recently, Ukraine disrupted a plot to assassinate Zelensky.
How much more subversive do Russians have to be before you'll recognize it?
The truth there is that Yanukovich had decided to sign both trade agreements, which he deemed would be the best for Ukraine, because it gave Ukraine competing agreements to get the best deals possible for their fledgling young nation. When the EU caught wind of what he was planning to do they told him that if he accepted the Russian trade agreement that the EU would rescind their trade agreement offer. Yanukovich said, I am paraphrasing, that he felt like the bride who had showed up at the church and was handed a pre-nuptial agreement to sign before the vows were exchanged. He said that was when he decided to go with Russia's trade agreement and abandon the EU's trade agreement completely.
The problem with you Zeepers is that you think you know the truth, but in reality you know nothing but what you have been told. If anyone else tries to tell you the truth you dismiss that truth and call the person a liar spreading propaganda,
However, that does not give the people the right to begin a revolution. Yanukovich had agreed to allow a new election to take place earlier that it would normally occur in order to have a peaceful transition. But according to many knowledgeable people the CIA used this to fomented a color revolution so that the transition would be a violent one to rush in a new administration that was amenable to our presence being there to help them along. Or stated another way, to get a foot in the door under the guise of being a friend in a time of need.
That in turn provoked Putin to invade and retake the Crimea that Russia had taken from the Ottoman Empire in the late 1700s, around the time we were declaring our nation an Independent nation no longer a colony controlled by Great Britain. In 2008, Putin had stated that NATO expansion into either Georgia or Ukraine would be viewed by Russia as being red lines that would not be tolerated. Unlike Obama that had made red line statements, Putin was serious that these red-lines he had presented.
Or shall we talk about a REAL coup attempt from 2014, led by one O. Bahtiyarov, complete with Molotov cocktails, intending to overthrow the interim government left in place after Yanukovich fled. Funded by a Russian entity calling itself the "Eurasian Youth Union'. Much more recently, Ukraine disrupted a plot to assassinate Zelensky.
If you notice the date of that article, it falls suspiciously close after Russia had seized back control of the Crimea in Feb. of 2014. Do you know what they did as a result of this supposed action?
He was banned from Ukraine. Hardly a befitting penalty one would expect considering the claim being made. Of course, you, no doubt, believe that Zelenskyy was being magnanimous, right? I also like the word believed in the headline. Considering the penalty meted out, I believe it very well could have been more propaganda to rile up people such as yourself that have short-fuses in a rush to get Russia, and as MeagaC puts it, make sure they can never attack anyone else, ever again!!!
“How much more subversive do Russians have to be before you’ll recognize it?”
Russians are for some reason incapable of recognizing Russian subversion. Some of them will brag about it when it suits them and then deny it when it doesn’t.
They never see or recognize the contradiction because to the Soviet mind there are NEVER any contradictions in the government narrative.