On the anniversary of the Ukrainian "revolution"
This month marks the 12th anniversary of what I believe to be one of the strangest events in history, the Ukrainian “revolution” of 2014.
Despite the dubious nature of the stated reasons for this "revolution" - these reasons will be discussed below - Western countries immediately supported the protest movement, the so-called "Euromaidan," even in violation of international law. See the photo above left of V. Nuland, a high-ranking American diplomat, distributing food to lawbreakers who had
illegally set up a tent camp in the central square of the Ukrainian capital. However, such actions are expressly prohibited by Article 41 of the Vienna Convention relating to the Status of Diplomatic Personnel.
Feeling supported by the West, the opposition at a certain point began burning and killing; see the photo above right of protesters setting fire to the ruling party's office, which resulted in the death of the office's programmer.
And the beginning of the events that led to the “revolution,” that is, to the removal of the then-President V. Yanukovych from office, is associated in Ukraine and the West with the fact that V. Yanukovych had postponed the signing of the association agreement between Ukraine and the EU in November 2013; see below the quote from
The Guardian:
Since countries are constantly entering and leaving certain alliances (for example, the history of relations between France and NATO or the UK and the EU), no one would believe that some kind of “revolution” could start due to the delay in signing some association agreement.
Therefore, the thesis that massive corruption allegedly existed in Ukraine under President Viktor Yanukovych was subsequently vigorously promoted. Even Barack Obama later personally
called him a "corrupt ruler".
And Ukraine's first post-Maidan Prosecutor General announced that V. Yanukovych had allegedly stolen over $100 billion from the state; see the
quote below:
Former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych had stolen more than $100 billion from the state.
This was stated by Ukrainian Prosecutor General Oleh Makhnitsky at the Forum on the Return of Stolen Assets in London, Channel 5 reports.
According to him, some of these funds had ended up in European banks, and some had been taken to Russia.
At least 32 billion, Makhnitsky claims, were transported across the border at the beginning of the year (2014) in cash – in trucks.
But despite such pretentious accusations against Viktor Yanukovych, there remains no final verdict confirming his embezzlement during his presidency. Only on January 20, 2026, a Ukrainian court did issue an in absentia
verdict against Viktor Yanukovych for allegedly illegally acquiring a plot of land in 2007 (that is, before his election as president in 2010), but this verdict has not yet entered into force.
From the above it follows that there were no significant reasons for the Ukrainian "revolution" of 2014, but the subsequent surge of
neo-Nazism in Ukraine divided the country and served as one of the main reasons for the Russian military operation.
P.S.
Here is another thesis regarding Euromaidan.
The Maidanists decided that they could violate Ukrainian laws.
Despite a court order (see the beginning of this message), they set up a tent camp in the central square of Kyiv, then began to seize buildings, etc.
And why then didn't the residents of the East of what was then Ukraine, Gubarev, Zakharchenko, Klinchaev, Plotnitsky, etc. (many names have now been forgotten), subsequently have the right to separate Donbass from Ukraine on the basis of the UN-guaranteed right of nations to self-determination?
Post-Maidan Kyiv authorities claimed that this separation was a violation of Ukrainian law, but Euromaidan participants violated Ukrainian law too.
And regarding the thesis that among the Donbass militias there were Russian citizens, for example, “Motorola”, Strelkov, etc.
But among the Maidanists there were citizens not only of Ukraine.
Even among the dead, i.e. among the so-called “Heavenly Hundred,” were Zhiznevsky, a
citizen of Belarus, Khurtia and Kipiani,
citizens of Georgia.
And among the surviving Euromaidan participants, I believe there were many more foreigners, although their names were not made public. But the post-Maidan authorities were forced, whether they liked it or not, to reveal the citizenships of those killed.
China does not supply weapons to Russia. They're too busy figuring out a way to take advantage of Russia at this point. India needs cheap oil to fight off inflation but also recently hosted a visit for Zelensky. 
