<ol> <li>Over 100 people are murdered by Yanukovych's forces</li> <li>The Rada is outraged, and seeks to impeach Yanukovych</li> <li>Yanukovych flees to Moscow</li> <li>Yanukovych removed from office in 328-0 vote</li> <li>Caretaker President appointed by Rada</li> <li>Elections are held within three months</li> <li>Petro Poroshenko is elected in first round with 54.7% of the vote.</li> <li>Yanukovych's mansion is exposed to the public</li> </ol> <p>I'm not seeing anything that looks like a coup here. Yanukovych could have fought impeachment, but he abdicated his office. Every step of the removal process was in accordance with Ukrainian law.</p> <p>A coup is defined as "the violent overthrow or alteration of an existing government by a small group." The Rada did not use force to remove Yanukovych. The government was not overthrown. And the Rada represented every oblast in Ukraine. Ergo, your first "fact" is false. <p> THERE WAS NO COUP. <ol> <li>Putin's "little green men" seized the building of the Supreme Council of Crimea and the building of the Council of Ministers in Simferopol. Putin's thugs used lethal force. A small group, overthrowing the existing government of Crimea. NOW, THAT IS A COUP.</li> <li>Igor "Strelkov" Girkin and a crack brigade of Russian troops instigated a violent coup in eastern Ukraine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgjH_voWIG0.</li> <li>A Russian brigade, on average, consists of 5,000 troops.</li> THERE WAS NO CIVIL WAR IN THE DONBAS. <li>Alexander Borodai, former 'Prime Minister' of the DPR, said 50,000 "Russian volunteers" had fought in the first five months of the 2014 war.</li> THAT LOOKS LIKE AN INVASION. <li>Russian-backed separatists seized Ukrainian government buildings in the Donbas and declared the Donetsk and Luhansk republics (DPR and LPR) as independent states.</li> WADDAYA KNOW! THAT LOOKS LIKE ANOTHER COUP. 27. By lAugust 2014, Ukraine had re-taken most separatist-held territory and nearly regained control of the Russia�Ukraine border. 28. In response, Russia sent troops, tanks and artillery into the Donbas. Imagine how ruzzia would howl if NATO sent troops into Ukraine! 29. The War of the Donbas was waged, with 50,000 ruzzian troops fighting on the separatist side. 30. Battle of Ilovisk. Ukraine forces in Ilovaisk outnumbered by enemy by 18 times, https://www.unian.info/war/1111788-combined-russian-separatist-forces-overwhelm-ukrainian-troops-by-18-times-in-ilovaisk-in-2014.html Russia was waging war with overwhelming force. 31. Minsk 2014 (Sept.) established a truce 32. ruzzia reloaded, and repeatedly broke the truce. 33. Heavy fighting resumed in January 2015, during which ruzzia captured Donetsk Airport. 34. Minsk 2015 (12 Feb. 2015) 35. ruzzia deployed "a large amount of artillery and multiple rocket launcher systems around Debaltseve", and was responsible for shelling of the city. 36. Petr Poroshenko ordered his troops to observe the ceasefire IF the ruzzian side did, as well. 37. During the course of 15 Feb, shelling struck Ukrainian positions, and separatist forces made multiple attacks upon the city from the west and east, storming government positions in the nearby village of Chornukhyne. I don't see how Minsk 2015 is in any way binding on the Ukrainians, as the invasion of Debaltseve was a material breach. 38. Both sides built extensive trenches, resulting in static trench warfare. 39. In 2017, on average a Ukrainian soldier died in combat every three days, with an estimated 40,000 separatist and 6,000 Russian troops in the region. 40. By the end of 2017, OSCE observers had counted around 30,000 people in military gear crossing from Russia at the two border checkpoints it was allowed to monitor. The OSCE also documented military convoys crossing from Russia covertly. OSCE catches Russia bringing war to Donbas by night, https://khpg.org//en/1534013815">