Like heck they did. It was the coup that started this...and it is the same folks responsible for the 2004 revolution. They’re all cruds.
The Ukrainian people had every right to get rid of a Russian toadie - Yanukovich - that refused to work for the better interests of his country, and traitorously tried to weld Ukraine to Russia.
But that foiled Putin’s plan to subsume Ukraine, so now he hyas to do it by naked military invasion, always with that weak pretext - “the Russian people in the Ukraine are being threatened”.
Yeah right. The only people doing threatening are the Russians.
“It was the coup that started this...”
There was no coup. The Ukrainian parliament clearly stated there was no coup. The president was formally removed from power by a unanimous vote - even from those in his own party. https://www.kyivpost.com/content/kyiv/euromaidan-rallies-in-ukraine-feb-21-live-updates-337287.html
It wasn’t a coup
the dude quit
the parliament then voted him out