First published at 03:22 UTC on March 29th, 2023.
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Original source: https://www.cnn.com/2014/09/02/world/europe/ukraine-crisis/index.html
I am providing this copy in order to secure it, since this is no longer part of US propaganda anymore. This is from September 2, 2014, and is covering the civil war of Ukraine that was ongoing at the time.
The United States overthrew Ukraine's government in 2014, Eastern Ukraine did not accept this coup, which started the civil war. The start of the civil war is unclear, but it was covered by Wikipedia as early as April 2014.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Donbas_(2014%E2%80%932022)
We know Ukraine was overthrown by the United States because (probably) the FSB recorded a conversation between Victoria Nuland and Geoffrey Pyatt 2 weeks and 4 days before Viktor Yanukovych fled office. This was posted publicly.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26079957
The release of the audio is (was? - no matter it's archived) here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSxaa-67yGM
In this conversation, Victoria Nuland picks out the next leader before the "Ukrainian revolution".
This led to civil war within Ukraine almost immediately - east versus west. The east did not accept the coup. The Russian invasion is Russia doing direct intervention. Who began the civil war? I cannot determine, but if you can, I'd appreciate it, I suspect EASTERN Ukraine began it.
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