Every Soviet-style dictator or would-be dictator will say “They shot themselves to make me look bad”.
Russian propaganda claimed that Maidan was a power grab by a “Junta”. What that junta did ... the first thing they did was elections. By now there have been even one more election in Ukraine in 2019 and the incumbent president lost.
Meanwhile Putin has been in power in dictator for life status since 1999 and his butt-buddy Lukashenka since 1994.
No, the first thing they did after violently overthrowing the democratically elected Ukraine president was install a hand-picked US puppet government...whose first act was to ban Russian as an official language, followed on by declaring the Eastern dissidents "terrorists".
If all it takes to enact "democratic" regime change is a violent mob, than France should have a new leader shortly.