Remembering the 2014 coup d’etat in Ukraine (published in "Seychelles Nation")
This month, it is the tenth anniversary of the anti-constitutional armed coup d’etat (the so-called “Euromaidan”) in Kiev. Back then, in February 2014, skilled provocateurs guided by Western instructors led crowds of people into the streets in protest, with attractive slogans about a better European life, democracy, human rights and anti-corruption struggle. In reality, the mass disorder was well orchestrated and funded from outside the country in a bid to overthrow the legitimate government.
Did the Ukrainians seeking changes for the better get what they were after? The answer is a resounding “no.” The coup d’etat led to a deep rift in society, persecution, suppression of dissent, rampant nationalism and neo-Nazism, lawlessness and nihilism, a war on the Russian language and history, and the complete socioeconomic decay of the country.
This is all the more tragic because the settlement of the political crisis that broke out at that time could have been completely bloodless. With this aim in mind, on Feb. 21, 2014, former President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych and the opposition leaders signed an agreement, implementation of which would have made it possible to avoid tragic events that took place in Ukraine in the past ten years. But the victors of the “revolution of dignity” brushed it aside as a mere nuisance on their path to office.
The coup d’etat did not bring Ukraine closer to democracy and progress. With the coup, the nationalists and their foreign supporters finally drove the situation to an impasse, taking the country and its citizens to the edge of an abyss.
Finally, the targeted extermination of the ethnic Russians initiated by the Ukrainian nationalist authorities was something that could not be tolerated. In 2022, the decision was taken to put an end to the threats emanating from the Kiev regime.
Artyom Kozhin
Ambassador of Russia
