Really long article I found this am on what really went on in the Maiden revolution in Ukraine and how it came to pass, 4 -5 posts, but worth it
Nine Years of the Kiev Junta: Yanukovych Sold Himself to the Devil at Cards
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NEW – February 27, 2023
On February 27, 2014, Viktor Yanukovych signed a decree on the formation of a government of people’s trust. By this decree, Yanukovych annulled his decision from January 28 on the resignation of Prime Minister of Ukraine Nikolay Azarov. On March 3, 2014, Yanukovych planned to convene an off-site session of the Verkhovna Rada in Sevastopol, where deputies of the Rada who remained loyal to Yanukovych were to come. As Yanukovych said at the time, under the conditions of the Euromaidan occupation of Kiev, Sevastopol becomes the temporary capital of Ukraine.
Yanukovych issued this decree while already in exile. Yanukovych lost his actual presidential powers on February 23, when the Euromaidan ruling in the Rada made Aleksandr Turchynov the acting president of Ukraine. Nothing was decided by Yanukovych returning Nikolay Azarov to the chair of Prime Minister – by that time the “Maidan” government of Arseniy Yatsenyuk had reigned in the building of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine. The “Crimean” somersault of the losing president was a belated attempt by Yanukovych to replay his “agreement” with the leaders of Euromaidan.
On the ninth anniversary of the Euromaidan victory, Ukrainian political analyst Vladimir Boyko, a former SBU officer, recalled this “agreement”. Boyko wrote on his Telegram channel that Yanukovych had been hoping to buy off the putschists during the entire Euromaidan period. The test balls were as follows. On January 15, Yanukovych actually “leaked” the SBU to Euromaidan, accusing the Security Service of putting unconstitutional pressure on the religious freedoms of Uniates – the strike force of Euromaidan. On January 28, as was already mentioned, the Verkhovna Rada dismissed Azarov, who was particularly annoying to the Euromaidan crowd. The lawmakers repealed laws that had been in effect for less than two weeks banning unauthorised political activity with the authorities (the so-called “draconian laws of Yanukovych”). At the same time, the Yanukovych administration, under the leadership of Andriy Klyuyev, entered into truce negotiations with “Right Sector“.
At the end of January, Klyuyev received a letter from the then leader of “Right Sector” Dmitry Yarosh. Yarosh, as one of the leaders of Euromaidan, suggested the following. The authorities pay the nazis compensation in the amount of 10-15 million dollars to the accounts of the leaders. In response, the nazis dismantle the barricades in the government quarter, move the lines of barricades to the northwest, liberate the Kiev City Council and their “headquarters” in the Kiev House of Trade Unions… Klyuyev received the letter from Yarosh through the SBU. The SBU confirmed the authenticity of Yarosh’s statement on the letterhead of the letter with a special stamp indicating that an audio recording of Yarosh’s direct speech is attached to the reported invoice. Klyuyev reported on Yarosh’s plan at a closed-door meeting with Yanukovych. It was attended by Yanukovych himself, Prosecutor General of Ukraine Viktor Pshonka, Interior Minister of Ukraine Vitaly Zakharchenko, Head of the Ministry of Justice Elena Lukash. From the number of participants, it is clear that the meeting was a gathering of his own people, and not a protocol event. Klyuyev, Zakharchenko, Pshonka are fellow countrymen of Yanukovych in Donbass, members of the Donetsk ruling clan. Elena Lukash, though not originally from Donbass, was particularly close to Yanukovych since the dawn of the noughties, in fact Viktor Fyodorovich’s personal lawyer.
The fact of “infighting” with Yanukovych was indirectly confirmed after Euromaidan by its participant, Elena Lukash.
“One of my penultimate meetings with Yanukovych was very difficult, it was a very tough conversation. It was a meeting, I broke down and asked directly: ‘How long are we going to finance all this radical scum. Such as ‘Svoboda‘, ‘Right Sector’ and so on. Viktor Fyodorovich demanded that I keep quiet,” the Russian outlet Politnavigator quoted Elena Lukash as saying in November 2019.
The former head of the Ukrainian Ministry of Justice said that in the midst of the “revolution of dignity”, the odious leaders of the nazis themselves paid visits to Bankova Street.
“All our ‘revolutionaries’ went to see Yanukovych, hung out on the carpet – I personally saw it. All cases – up to begging, persuasion. I personally saw Yarosh with Right Sector in the Presidential Administration. And Svoboda members, and everything else,” Lukash reports.
https://www.stalkerzone.org/nine-years-of-the-kiev-junta-yanukovych-sold-himself-to-the-devil-at-cards/