Bullshit. You have the timeline all wrong. The proof that Yanokovitch had the votes is that he won the election.
It's only after 3 oblasts that overwhelmingly supported him seceded from Ukraine that he didn't have the votes. Crimea, Luhansk, and Donetsk all held referendums and overwhelmingly voted to secede after the US brokered violent bloody coup ousted the legitimate democratically elected government in Ukraine.
You are either ignorant or are
lying with your talk of a “timeline.” I was speaking not of 2010 but of the vote in the Rada for Yansenyuk to replace Viktor Yanukovych — who had already fled to Russia — which took place on February 27th. The results, as I indicated, were overwhelming:
371 members of parliament voted to elect
Arseniy Yatsenyuk as
Prime Minister of Ukraine, only two votes short of the record-high 373 votes won by
Yulia Tymoshenko in 2005. Note the collapse and capitulation of the Party of Regions, once led by Viktor Yanukovych himself.
This chart shows that a great majority even of the Eastern-based “Party of Regions” elected Rada delegates supported Yatsenyuk, so disappointed were they with Yanukovych and his double-dealing, of his betrayals of his own previous promises and his fleeing to Russia. Many of these were probably always corrupt opportunists, and perhaps simply voted for Yatsenyuk to keep themselves and their patrons in power, hoping the Maidan “Revolution of Dignity” like the earlier “Orange Revolution” would eventually exhaust itself and allow Russian influence to re-assert itself, as it had so many times in the past.
Of course the “secession” and then joining with Russia of the three oblasts — at first crucially aided by Russian ex-military adventurers or “unmarked” Russian soldiers — in both Crimea and the Donbas … occurred months (or even years) later.
It is certainly true, however, that the Russian-led split-off of Crimea and Donbas (and the loss of their voter base) encouraged further political consolidation of nationalist public opinion in Ukraine against Russia, and allowed for the rapid consolidation of a nationalist government in Kiev and creation of a new Ukrainian patriotic army.