Yanukovych stripped the Ukrainian military, most likely on Moscow’s order. It was also Moscow, in cohoots with the gullible west, which stole their nuclear weapons from them, protected by an “agreement,” which Lenin compared to pie crusts, “meant to be broken”. Do not blame the Ukrainians. Blame Russian disinformation, secret agents, and western weakness and shortsightedness.
Everything you say is true. But it does not absolve the Ukrainians from defending their country or at least trying to. They did not try to stop the looting of their country by Yanukovych or any of the other kleptocrats so why quibble now over the bones?
~Yanukovych stripped the Ukrainian military, most likely on Moscow’s order~
At least a couple of pro-Western administrations before Yanukovysh did exactly the same. Most of the Ukrainian airforce wasn’t airworthy and navy could barely float by late 1990s, about a decade before he was elected.