DISINFO: 20 years of Western coups have left Ukraine bereft
SUMMARY
Ukraine abandoned its neutral status with the Orange coup d'état of 2004. After 20 years of coups - Orange Revolution (2004), Euromaidan (2013-2014) - sponsored by the US, EU, NATO, neighbouring countries (Finland and especially Poland and the Baltic countries) Ukraine has achieved war and the halving of its population. The latter between impositions by the World Bank, IMF, escapes abroad in search of work and a peaceful life and extermination of soldiers sent to their slaughter by Washington, Brussels and their henchmen.
RESPONSE
Conspiracy theory as well as recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narratives about the 2013-14 protests in Kyiv and the Orange Revolution in 2004 portrayed as a coup d'état led by US, and Western countries. These disinformation narratives aim to deflect Russia’s responsibility for its unprovoked military aggression.
Ukraine’s Orange Revolution of 2005 was sparked by the election fraud. Non-partisan exit polls during the 2004 presidential election had given Viktor Yushchenko a commanding lead, with 52 percent of the votes, compared to Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich's 43 percent. Yet when the official results came in, Yanukovich had supposedly beaten the challenger by 2.5 percent.
Protestors clad in orange, Yushchenko’s campaign colour, took to the streets, and the country endured nearly two weeks of demonstrations. Yanukovych’s supporters in the east threatened to secede from Ukraine if the results were annulled. Nevertheless, on December 3 the Supreme Court ruled the election invalid and ordered a new runoff for December 26. Yushchenko subsequently defeated Yanukovych by garnering some 52 percent of the vote. Although Yanukovych challenged the validity of the results, Yushchenko was inaugurated on January 23, 2005.
In 2014, there was no coup, nor a western orchestrated protest in Ukraine. The demonstrations which began in Kyiv in November 2013 – called "Maidan", or "Euromaidan" – were a result of the Ukrainian people's frustration with former President Yanukovych's last-minute U-turn when, after seven years of negotiation, he refused to sign the EU–Ukraine Association Agreement and halted progress towards Ukraine's closer relationship with the EU due to Russian pressure. It cannot be labelled as a coup, even though pro-Kremlin media are very persistent in doing so.
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.
Ukraine's government changed its relations toward Russia after the latter annexed Crimea, which is part of Ukraine, illegally following the covert invasion of “little green men".
Also Ukraine voted to abandon neutrality not in 2004 as claimed in the article but in December 2014 after Russia’s invasion of Crimea and Donbas.
The US, the EU and NATO condemn, in the strongest possible terms, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which is entirely unjustified and unprovoked. Not only Western but also many other nations around the world support Ukraine with military and financial aid for the country’s efficient self-defence, in accordance with the UN Charter article 51, to stop Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine.
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