Fact - Yanukovych wanted to sign a deal which was more beneficial to Ukraine (his parliament majority voted against the EU deal)
Fact - pro-western west of Ukraine protested and violence ensued
Fact - in order to stop violence and create a space to negotiate, Yanukovich offered two political positions to his opponents (prime minister to Yatsenyuk and deputy to Klitshko). When they subsequently denied (see below), he agreed to bring presidential elections forward to allow people the opportunity to vote.
What later transpired (from the conversation) was that the US got directly involved by direct contact with the opposition leaders. What followed everyone knows.
As for the phonecalls themselves, everyone just focuses too much on the "fk Europe" part. Meanwhile, there were more important parts to the conversation. Even the bloody BBC reported io it as well as on the US involvement.
Also -
@TEXTILE GUY - this is my answer to your question earlier on. The US government / foreign office has as much blood on their hands as Russia and I denounce both of them.
I also denounce all those who supported the illegitimate overthrow of a sitting president.
A transcript of the alleged conversation between Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland and the US ambassador to Ukraine, Geoffrey Pyatt discussing the crisis in Ukraine.
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And lastly, the parliamentary vote to impeach and remove sitting president was note done according to the process laid out in the Ukrainian constitution. As such, Yanukovich was removed unconstitutionally.
In a statement on 4 March 2014, Foreign Minister William Hague deceived the House of Commons about the legitimacy of the new regime in Ukraine... He led the House to believe that the Ukrainian parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, had removed President Yanukovich from power on 22 February in...
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