![]() Demonstrations broke out in Kyiv, prompting crackdowns, prompting a widening of the protests … and the rest, we all know. ![]() Putin feared, correctly, that this development could wreck his plans for a “Eurasian Union” (which he saw as the basis for a revived Russian empire), and so he offered Yanukovych $15-billion in exchange for backing out of the Western league. Then-President Viktor Yanukovych had taken steps toward an affiliation with the European Union. This crisis began, after all, when Putin took notice that Ukraine - which he and every other Russian leader in history have regarded as deeply tied to Russia - was drifting into the West’s orbit. ![]() This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.
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