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The claim

“We then overthrow the Ukraine government, in 2014, their elected government, and put in a Western sympathetic government.”

Rating

Disputed

Reviewed by Washington Post ↗ ·

Original fact check ↗

PeakMetrics research summary

Based on related reporting.

Related reporting from S5 describes the 2014 change of government in Ukraine as a U.S.-backed coup against elected president Viktor Yanukovych. This source supports the claim’s basic description, but the supplied excerpt does not independently establish that the United States installed a Western-sympathetic government.[S5]

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Sources and attribution

  1. [original] Washington Post original review

    Original review · Retrieved October 17, 2026

  2. [S5] Regime Change Always Leads To Death, Destruction and Chaos.

    Additional research · Retrieved October 17, 2026