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==Maidan coup==
==Maidan coup==
[[Obama regime]] ambassador [[Geoffrey Pyatt]] arrived in Kyiv on August 3, 20213. Almost immediately Pyatt authorized a grant for Hromadske TV, which would prove essential to building the [[Euromaidan]] street demonstrations against Ukraine's [[democratically]] elected president, [[Victor Yanukovych]]. The grant was only $43,737, with an additional $4,796 by November 13, 2013, enough to buy the modest equipment the project needed.
Many of Hromadske's journalists had worked in the past with American benefactors. Editor-in-chief Roman Skrypin was a frequent contributor to Washington's Radio Free Europe / Radio Libertyand the US-funded Ukrayinska Pravda. In 2004, he had helped create Channel 5 television, which played a major role in the Orange Revolution that the US and its European allies masterminded in 2004.
Skrypin had already gotten $10,560 from [[George Soros]]'s International Renaissance Foundation (IRF), which came as a recommendation from Pyatt. Sometime between December 2013 and the following April, IRF would give Hromadske another $19,183.
Hromadske's biggest funding in that period came from the Embassy of the [[Netherlands]], which gave $95,168. As a departing US envoy to the Hague said in a secret cable that [[Wikileaks]] later made public, "Dutch pragmatism and our similar world-views make the Netherlands fertile ground for initiatives others in Europe might be reluctant, at least initially, to embrace."<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/world/us-embassy-cables-documents/38987</ref>
For Pyatt, the payoff came on November 21, 2013 when [[President Yanukovych]] pulled back from an Association Agreement with the [[European Union]]. Within hours Hromadske TV went online and its journalists set the spark that brought Yanukovych down. Soros then funded a Ukrainian Crisis Media Center "to inform the international community about events in Ukraine."<ref>http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2014/march/25/meet-the-americans-who-put-together-the-coup-in-kiev/</ref>
==Donbas war==
==Donbas war==
{{See also|Donbas war}}
{{See also|Donbas war}}