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You can leave out the 'puppet' in your statement, but keep Russian. Again, Ukraine is half-Russian, half-Polish. To say that a Ukrainian president is a puppet of either country is like saying that an Australian president is a British puppet, with the difference being that Australia is a settler colony while Ukraine is/was a border dispute solution.
Yanukovich walked away from the deal because the EU made too many demands that would have resulted in millions of job losses. It was a bad trade deal and so he walked away from it hoping for renegotiations of a deal that would not completely ruin his country.
"cracked down". What does that even mean? Who gets to decide a protest has been "cracked down"? Has anybody ever written about protests being "cracked down" during the Palestine liberation protests? Covid protests? Jan 6 2020 protests?
The insurgency, let's just use the teminology used when it happens in an Anglo nation shall we?, consisted of terrorist attacks by snipers that shot Ukrainian police officers dead and civilian protesters, who wanted their country to go into financial ruin, dead.
People that have come forward saying they were the instigators of this violence were neither part of the Ukrainian law enforcement, nor part of the protest groups, but foreign mercenaries who got paid or part of ultra-right factions. It's a more believable story than what the other side claims, where police officers who are trained to uphold stability mow down their own colleagues and civilians for stability's sake without refusal. It's more believable as the first story doesn't have snipers shooting their own snipers dead just to create chaos. That wouldn't make any sense. People do not tend to kill people of their own group, not just because those are their friends they can rely on, but also puts them in an extremely vulnerable paranoid position of themselves being next. How would you know when to stop? How would you know you're not on the list? Would you be killed from orders of their higher ups? Collaegues out for revenge of their friends?
And all of this doesn't change the fact that Ukraine was banning all things related Russia after the coup and mowing down indepedence voters at the ballot station in the Donbass region.