Yeah fighting expansion, except when they toppled Ukraine's government because they wanted to remain neutral between NATO and Russia. What the people of Ukraine want was reflected in their decision to democratically elect Yanukovich.
Tankie scum? or "free thinker"?
What people of Ukraine want was reflected in their decision to out the traitor Yanukovich.
Russia instigated a trade and hybrid warfare campaign against Ukraine in an attempt to stop the upcoming EU free trade agreement with Ukraine.
Yanukovich (who had a private zoo btw) "chose" not to sign said free trade agreement with the third largest economy in the world and chose to side with a country that has nothing to offer.
After campaigning to do the opposite.
And Ukrainians lost their shit because nobody looks at Europe and then Russia and chooses Russia as the direction they want to go.
They protest, Yanukovich doesn't back down and shoots protestors instead.
They overthrow and oust the traitor. Probably because he has a zoo. Zoo is the luxury afforded to dictators AFTER they've won not before it IMO.
Ukraine talks to a bunch of countries (including the most powerful on earth America) for it's opinions on restructuring it's government....
Now it's your turn to post the Nuland video of this discussion as your evidence that it was really the evil America all along.
Because you "know" that none of this could be instigated by innocent old Putin. The former KGB agent is above all this geopolitical meddling and just wants to be left alone by the evil west and it's evil expansion.