A little more than a year ago, the Kremlin began its offensive to turn Ukraine away from an EU agreement that was supported even by Yanukovych and his Party of Regions. The rest – Yanukovych’s renunciation of the EU agreement, the popular uprising that ousted him in response, two invasions by Russia, and thousands of people killed in the country’s eastern Donbas region – is history.
一年多后，克里姆林宫开始采取手段让乌克兰脱离亚努科维奇及其地区党（Party of Regions）也支持的欧盟协定。后来的事——亚努科维奇反悔欧盟协定、群众因此暴动并推翻亚努科维奇、俄罗斯两次入侵乌克兰、乌克兰东部顿巴斯（Donbas）地区数千人丧生——大家都知道了。