2014 Ukrainian coup d'etat

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A burnt trade union building on February 20, 2014.

The 2014 Ukrainian coup d'état, also known as the Maidan Revolution, was a CIA-backed fascist[1] coup[2] in Ukraine against president Viktor Yanukovych. After the coup, armed rebellions began against the Ukrainian government in Donbas, forming the people's republics of Donetsk and Lugansk.[3]

  1. Max Blumenthal (2014-02-25). "Is the US backing neo-Nazis in Ukraine?" Salon. Retrieved 2022-02-12.
  2. Conal Urquhart (2014-02-23). "Ukraine MPs appoint interim president as Yanukovych allies dismissed – 23 February as it happened" The Guardian. Retrieved 2022-02-12.
  3. Oksana Grytsenko (2014-04-12). "Armed pro-Russian insurgents in Luhansk say they are ready for police raid" Kyiv Post. Retrieved 2022-02-12.