Say what you will but just as all the poor people in the world want into the US all the poor nations in Europe want into the EU. It’s a fact. And they damn sure don’t want the born again phony nationalist Putin bossing them around.
It was Viktor Yanukovych who negotiated that deal with the EU in the interest of his nation. It was Putin who said no. It was the Ukrainians, sick and tired of a bully in Moscow telling them what to do, who said that if Viktor Yanukovych was Putin’s puppet he must go. So you can blame the EU, but that’s not how it went down. And all of Ukraine’s neighbors have benefited materially and financially from the EU.