DISINFO: US made a mistake by organising a Maidan coup in Kyiv
SUMMARY
The United States made a strategic mistake in organising a Maidan coup in Kyiv. In the sight of not only the Kremlin, Moscow, but also the whole of Russia, the West “took” Ukraine with the help of Banderovtsi, like Hitler in 1941. And Russia set up outposts in the Crimea and the Donbas and received a vaccine from the Maidan.
RESPONSE
Recurring pro-Kremlin narrative about Ukraine's statehood which claims that protests were organised by US and the West. A similar case can be found here.
There was no coup d’état in Ukraine in 2014.
The demonstrations which began in Kyiv in November 2013 – called "Maidan" or "Euromaidan" – were not provoked from outside but were a result of the Ukrainian people's frustration with former President Yanukovych's last minute U-turn, when after seven years of negotiations, he refused to sign the EU–Ukraine Association Agreement and halted progress towards Ukraine's closer relationship with the EU as a result of Russian pressure. The protesters' demands included constitutional reform, a stronger role for parliament, formation of a government of national unity, an end to corruption, early presidential elections and an end to violence as can be read here.
Pro-Kremlin outlets do not deny the Russian military presence in Donbas and/or the annexation of Crimea.
The European Union does not recognise the illegal annexation of Crimea and continues to condemn this violation of international law, and that Russia’s illegal actions remain a direct challenge to international security, with grave implications for the international legal order that protects the unity and sovereignty of all States.
For more disinformation cases about Euromaidan see here.