What matters is the will of the people. It’s the people who overthrew Yanukovich

“What matters is the will of the fascists who overthrew the democratically elected government.”

It was a coup by Banderite fascists with US support. Maidan was a false flag massacre of protesters & police by Banderite snipers. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23311886.2023.2269685

If the Donbass separatists had such popular support, Donbass would have been independent without requiring Russian support.

So the coup-government-backed Banderite paramilitary attacks on eastern & southern Ukraine between 2014 and 2022, causing ~14,000 fatalities had nothing to do with it?