DISINFO: Euromaidan was a coup d’état supported by the US
SUMMARY
The Euromaidan was a coup d’état supported by the US. Instead of stability it generated chaos, labeled as “democracy”.
RESPONSE
Recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative depicting the 2013-14 protests in Kyiv as a coup d’état orchestrated by the West. There was no coup d’état in Ukraine. The onset of the Euromaidan protests was a spontaneous and endogenous reaction by numerous segments of the Ukrainian population to former President Yanukovych’s sudden withdrawal from the promised Association Agreement with the European Union in November 2013. The protesters’ demands included constitutional reform, a stronger role for parliament, the formation of a government of national unity, an end to corruption, early presidential elections and an end to violence. Read a similar case claiming that the West organised the Maidan coup in order to transform Ukraine into an anti-Russian state