DISINFO: The coup of 22 February 2014 was carried out with the support of the USA and EU countries
SUMMARY
In 2014, power in the country was seized by a coalition of groups that [....] showed their willingness to [use] the force of arms and commit genocide against anyone who did not conform to their ideal of a ‘true Ukrainian’. This not only definitively broke this social contract within the country, but also made Ukraine's existence extremely unpleasant for its neighbouring countries, so to speak.
The coup of 22 February 2014 was carried out with the support of the USA and EU countries, without taking Russia's interests into account.
RESPONSE
Recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narratives painting the 2013-14 protests in Kyiv as a coup d'état, and portraying the Ukrainian leadership as pathologically Russophobic and mistreating the country's Russian-speaking population.
There is no evidence that either ethnic Russians or Russian speakers are facing persecution at the hands of the Ukrainian authorities, much less the danger of annihilation on grounds of nationality, ethnicity, or cultural belonging. This has been confirmed by reports issued by the Council of Europe, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, and the OSCE.
There was no sudden violent seizure of power in Kyiv in 2014; this is a longstanding pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative about Ukraine's Euromaidan. The spontaneous onset of the Euromaidan protests was a reaction by numerous segments of the Ukrainian population to former president Viktor Yanukovych’s sudden departure from the promised Association Agreement with the European Union in November 2013.
Since 2014, Russia has waged large-scale armed aggression against Ukraine and is also responsible for the outbreak of the conflict in 2014, after having illegally annexed the Crimean Peninsula and engineered the creation of rebel militias in Donetsk, Luhansk and other places, with its army actively participating in military clashes.
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