DISINFO: The US supported the 2014 coup d’état in Ukraine
SUMMARY
The US supported the 2014 coup d’état in Ukraine.
RESPONSE
Recurring pro-Kremlin narrative about Euromaidan portraying the 2013-14 Ukrainian revolution as a coup d'etat that was supported and/or artificially orchestrated by US and Europe.
There was no coup d’état in Ukraine in 2014. Pro-Kremlin outlets falsely portray as a coup d’état the Euromaidan revolution, the popular demonstrations that began in Kyiv in November of 2013 and brought hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians to the streets to protest against a political decision of Viktor Yanukovych’s government, which at the last minute withdrew from a long-negotiated political association and free trade pact with the EU, choosing instead to accept a $15 billion economic bailout to Russia.
The demonstrations were not provoked by foreign powers but were a spontaneous popular revolt. The protesters demands included constitutional reform, the protection of human rights, a stronger role for parliament, formation of a government of national unity, an end to corruption, early presidential elections and an end to violence.
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