however, if you look at YOUR definition - , a coup is when a group of armed people (military or just a crowd of armed guys, domestic or foreign, or both) seizing government buildings to install their government or make existing government work at gunpoint
This is exactly what happened back in 2014 in Crimea, Donetsk, and Luhansk. Local rebels and Russian military (openly in Crimea, posing as locals in Donbas) violently overthrew Ukrainian rule and put in Muscowite frozen statelets
What happened in Kyiv though was mass protests.
At night, a few hundred protestors, mainly students, were beaten by the infamous Berkut. The next day hundreds of thousands demanded the resignation of the minister of internal affairs.
NOTE:
The military situation in Ukraine, as seen by an ex-member of the Swiss strategic intelligence
It you read that you will learn the truth which differs from the propaganda about who started the conflict in eastern Ukraine.
This was the definition I gave for coup d'état:
A coup d’état is the sudden, violent overthrow of an existing government or leader by a small group, typically involving control of the armed forces, police, and other military elements. Unlike a revolution, which is usually achieved by large numbers of people working for basic social, economic, and political change, a coup is a change in power from the top that merely results in the abrupt replacement of leading government personnel.
Your statement: a coup is when a group of armed people (military or just a crowd of armed guys, domestic or foreign, or both) seizing government buildings to install their government or make existing government work at gunpoint
As for coup d'états carried out by the U.S. it is well know that they are executed under the cover of color-revolutions:
The first one was aptly named as the Orange Revolution (2004)
The Orange Revolution was a series of protests and political events that took place in Ukraine between November 2004 and January 2005. The protests were sparked by allegations of electoral fraud during the presidential election, which saw Viktor Yanukovych declared the winner. The protests eventually led to a re-run of the election, which was won by Viktor Yushchenko.
The second one was named as: The Euromaidan Revolution (2013-2014)
The Euromaidan Revolution was a wave of protests that began in November 2013, sparked by President Viktor Yanukovych’s decision to suspend the signing of the Association Agreement with the European Union. (Again, he was prepared to sign both trade agreements which was best for Ukraine, but when the EU got wind of his decision they told him they would rescind their trade agreement offer. He stated that he decided right there to sign only the Russian trade agreement as he felt like the bride arriving at the church and being told to sign a pre-nuptial agreement) The protests, led by opposition leaders such as Arseniy Yatsenyuk and Vitali Klitschko, eventually led to Yanukovych’s ousting and the installation of a new government.
This provided another opportunity to escalate this into a full-fledged coup d'état, and it was started by a small group of men that fired into the protesting crowd killing several protestors and wounding others. The blame was immediately placed upon police sent by President Viktor Yanukovych.
You really are a dishonest debater, or you are just so misinformed that you refuse anything that differs from the narrative you believe to be the truth.
You are supposedly an ed-pat who has chosen to retire in Poland for some reason.
Well, those of us still living in this country have seen how much our own government has turned against their own native born citizens with generational history of Americans bon here whose relatives have put their lives on the line for this nation in various wars are leaders have led us into.