Believe whatever pro-Putin garbage you want. Yanukovych was a Lukashenko-Putin-stooge wannabee. When he vetoed the EU accession bill approved by the Ukrainian parliament to try to drag Ukraine back into the political and economic gangster state of Russia, tens of thousands of Ukrainians protested. Putin’s agents in Mariupol got roasted as a result of the violence Putin fomented.The same cabal who said this about Yanukovich said the same thing about Donald Trump, that he was a gangster, a Putin-stooge, and would destroy America. Tens of thousands of people also protested Trump's election.