Yanukovich received a plurality in the first round and a majority in the second round. You're correct that there is a clear divide in the country, but if Dekachin is going to make broad claims about the country as a whole, the claim that Ukrainians wanted to be pro-EU despite the 2010 electoral results is false.
Then, later, they changed their minds and voted the other direction
No they didn't. There were 6.5 million less votes in the 2014 election than in 2010. The pro-EU side didn't win because people changed their minds to become pro-EU, they won because the pro-Russia side didn't bother to vote because revolutionaries overthrowing their previous candidate proved their votes didn't matter.
There were 6.5 million less votes in the 2014 election than in 2010
So what? Zelenskyy got more votes in 2019 than Yanukovych got in 2010.
The pro-EU side didn't win because people changed their minds to become pro-EU
Yes actually that's exactly what happened.
they won because the pro-Russia side didn't bother to vote because revolutionaries overthrowing their previous candidate proved their votes didn't matter.
Cool story bro. That was 2014. Guess what else happened in 2014? Oh, right RUSSIA INVADED AND CONQUERED THE TWO REGIONS WITH THE MOST PRO-RUSSIAN VOTES, crimea and donbass.
Putin's little land grab guaranteed that Ukraine would irreversibly trip pro-west even in the Ukrainian people didn't change to become far more pro-west in response to Putin's war of aggression, which they also did.
Kiev wanted to be pro-EU. Ukraine voted for the pro-Russian ethnic Russian guy.
East Ukraine. West Ukraine was pro-EU. The divisions are quite real.
Yanukovich received a plurality in the first round and a majority in the second round. You're correct that there is a clear divide in the country, but if Dekachin is going to make broad claims about the country as a whole, the claim that Ukrainians wanted to be pro-EU despite the 2010 electoral results is false.
before or after shelling the opposition and banning other political parties?
It's not a democracy now mate even if it ever was, arguing that they voted for something is nonsensical and irrelevant now.
Sure, in 1 election they did that. Then, later, they changed their minds and voted the other direction and have consistently voted pro-EU ever since.
Why do you respect the feelings of the Ukrainian people only when they vote pro-russia but not otherwise? Hmmmmmm.
No they didn't. There were 6.5 million less votes in the 2014 election than in 2010. The pro-EU side didn't win because people changed their minds to become pro-EU, they won because the pro-Russia side didn't bother to vote because revolutionaries overthrowing their previous candidate proved their votes didn't matter.
So what? Zelenskyy got more votes in 2019 than Yanukovych got in 2010.
Yes actually that's exactly what happened.
Cool story bro. That was 2014. Guess what else happened in 2014? Oh, right RUSSIA INVADED AND CONQUERED THE TWO REGIONS WITH THE MOST PRO-RUSSIAN VOTES, crimea and donbass.
Putin's little land grab guaranteed that Ukraine would irreversibly trip pro-west even in the Ukrainian people didn't change to become far more pro-west in response to Putin's war of aggression, which they also did.