This is incorrect. We now know that the "protests" were sponsored by the US through NED and USAID. What happened in 2014 was a coup d'état that split the country in two, with the eastern and southern (ethnically Russian and pro-Russian) regions opposed to the coup government that was installed by the USA. This started a civil war in which the coup regime in Kiev sent Nazi battalions to shell, bomb, snipe and ptherwise kill the Ukrainian citizens in these areas.