The IMF does that with almost every loan. Sorry to spring this up on you, but the west is a cabal of imperialist nations that exploit, loot, and plunder the world. It forces poverty and austerity measures to free up money for loans and foreign investment to own key infrastructure. This austerity comes in the form of privatizing and destroying safety nets, and the very same safety nets Europeans enjoy are funded by this imperialism.

From The Nation: https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/the-rotten-roots-of-global-economic-governance/

From The Elephant: https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2025/01/16/debt-and-austerity-the-imfs-legacy-of-structural-violence-in-the-global-south/

The people did want the Russian loan, that's why there was a civil war. The Russian loan would have been far better. Yanukovych went against the wishes of parliament, which was in his bounds as president to do so, then was couped by the west and the far-right Banderites.

As for your source, it does indeed align with the far-right, pro-imperialist narrative. What it does is admit some basic facts, but twist them, exaggerate, and minimize, as all good propaganda does. I've read these western framed sources already, but I'm a communist, and as such I agree more with leftist analysis like that. My opinion is the common Marxist take, shared largely by PSL's statement and FRSO's statement.

Since you love sources, why not read through these? They're almost all western sources, so you should understand that these people already try their best to present the far-right narrative you agree with, but they still can't help when basic facts arise:

• The Budapest Memorandum: The Fake Narrative Supporting a Long War in Ukraine https://glenndiesen.substack.com/p/the-budapest-memorandum-the-fake
• 2022 Politico Fiona Hill interview https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/02/28/world-war-iii-already-there-00012340
• Security dilemma https://www.compactmag.com/article/reality-is-winning-the-ukraine-narrative-war/
• An article from August 2021 advocating inflicting a military defeat on Russia in Ukraine to subjugate it and draw it away from China https://nationalinterest.org/feature/strategy-avoiding-two-front-war-192137
• The Hill admits facts about Ukraine https://thehill.com/opinion/5198022-ukraine-conflict-disinformation/
• history https://consortiumnews.com/2025/02/25/ukraine-timeline-tells-the-tale/
• overview of the conflict https://www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/here-is-everything-that-neoliberals
• great laying out of how things started https://consortiumnews.com/2025/02/23/yes-ukraine-started-the-war/
• CIA https://abcnews.go.com/International/cia-helped-rebuild-ukraine-intelligence-russia-invasion/story?id=116909361
• Why is Ukraine the West's Fault? Featuring John Mearsheimer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrMiSQAGOS4
• An important piece that reveals Washington, via CIA paramilitaries, has been fighting a proxy war against Russia in the Donbas since, it's implied, 2014. https://news.yahoo.com/exclusive-secret-cia-training-program-in-ukraine-helped-kyiv-prepare-for-russian-invasion-090052743.html
• War crimes of the armed forces and security forces of Ukraine https://www.osce.org/files/f/documents/e/7/233896.pdf
• Accounts from the Ukrainian SBU’s torture prison reveal Zelensky’s plot to assassinate exiled opposition figure and leading journalist Anatoly Shariy https://www.mintpressnews.com/volodymyr-zelensky-secret-police-hunted-down-opposition-anatoly-shariy/280200/
• NYT coup coverage with CIA involvement https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/25/world/europe/cia-ukraine-intelligence-russia-war.html
• Both Zelensky and Azov are funded by Ukrainian billionaire Ihor Kolomoisky https://www.thedailybeast.com/billionaire-ukrainian-oligarch-ihor-kolomoisky-under-investigation-by-fbi
• The Maidan Massacre Trial and Investigation Revelations: Implications for the Ukraine-Russia War and Relations https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4440100
• Ukraine after maidan https://www.osw.waw.pl/en/publikacje/osw-commentary/2017-04-05/stable-crisis-ukraines-economy-three-years-after-euromaidan
• RAND on extending Russia https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR3063.html

NATO expansion

• not one inch east declassified https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/document/16116-document-05-memorandum-conversation-between

• Documents reveal Clinton forced Yeltsin into signing NATO-Russia pact https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/documents-reveal-clinton-forced-yeltsin-into-signing-nato-russia-pact/

In May 1990 speech Secretary General Manfred Wörner said “The very fact that we are ready not to deploy NATO troops beyond the territory of the Federal Republic gives the Soviet Union firm security guarantees.”

This shows 2 things:

1. As we already knew NATO had told the Soviet Union although that it would not move further East than East Germany
2. They understood full well that NATO moving East was seen as threatening by USSR given the promise not to do so was a “security guarantee” for them.

https://www.nato.int/docu/speech/1990/s900517a_e.htm

fascism

• origins of slava ukraini https://web.archive.org/web/20200926092831/https://georgetownsecuritystudiesreview.org/2018/10/22/glory-to-ukraine-the-de-glorified-truth-of-ukrainian-nationalist-policy/
• Ukrainian neo-Nazi C14, known for racist and homophobic attacks, gets public funding for ‘patriotic education’ https://khpg.org/en/1528928862
• https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-30414955
• https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-28329329
• https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/europe/2021-05-04/ty-article/.premium/ukrainian-official-changes-tune-on-unacceptable-march-honoring-ss-unit/0000017f-e0e2-d7b2-a77f-e3e7ee990000 (https://archive.ph/ckwv4)
• https://www.ft.com/content/7191ec30-9677-423d-873c-e72b64725c2d
• https://consortiumnews.com/2022/12/29/on-the-influence-of-neo-nazism-in-ukraine/
• https://consortiumnews.com/2022/12/29/evidence-of-us-backed-coup-in-kiev/
• https://gordonhahn.com/2015/05/02/ukraines-neo-fascist-right-sector-claims-responsibility-again-for-2-may-2014-terrorist-pogrom/
• http://www.errc.org/news/anti-roma-pogroms-in-ukraine-on-c14-and-tolerating-terror

maidan coup

• Reuters, 2014: Leaked audio reveals embarrassing U.S. exchange on Ukraine, EU https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSBREA151VA/
• Leaked recording between Nuland and Pyatt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoW75J5bnnE | transcript
• Counterpunch, 2014: US Imperialism and the Ukraine Coup https://www.counterpunch.org/2014/03/10/us-imperialism-and-the-ukraine-coup/
• Consortium News, 2015: The Mess That Nuland Made https://consortiumnews.com/2022/02/26/robert-parry-the-mess-that-nuland-made/
• Monthly Review Online, 2021: The Maidan massacre in Ukraine: revelations from trials and investigations https://mronline.org/2021/12/11/the-maidan-massacre-in-ukraine/
• Maidan coup thread https://archive.ph/BAxYc
• Coup details https://consortiumnews.com/2022/12/29/evidence-of-us-backed-coup-in-kiev/

war crimes

• https://www.ohchr.org/en/documents/country-reports/40th-periodic-report-human-rights-situation-ukraine-treatment-prisoners
• https://www.npr.org/2023/01/31/1152743054/human-rights-watch-ukraine-landmines
• CNN coverage of Donbas in 2014 https://xcancel.com/paulius60/status/1611148483859255296
• UN finds no genocide https://news.yahoo.com/un-commission-fails-evidence-russias-160057021.html
• https://mronline.org/2023/07/30/russia-donbass-and-the-reality-of-the-conflict-in-ukraine/
• Stoltenberg admits NATO was in Ukraine since 2014 https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/opinions_211698.htm
• https://www.kanekoa.news/p/osce-reports-reveal-ukraine-started
• HRW https://www.hrw.org/news/2014/10/20/ukraine-widespread-use-cluster-munitions
• Donbas documentary 2016 https://youtube.com/watch?v=bN68OfFKaWs
• clip from the doc https://odysee.com/@justsomeclips:2/trade-union-burning-2014:8
• Ukraine in Donbas https://ingaza.wordpress.com/2022/08/10/what-ive-seen-of-ukraines-war-crimes-against-civilians-in-the-donbass-over-the-years/
• https://thegrayzone.com/2023/09/06/ukraines-arms-supplier-maidan-massacre/
• Poroshenko https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHWHqj8g7Bk

negotiations

• https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2022/05/5/7344206/
• https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2022/09/03/west-peace-proposal-ukraine-russia/
• https://peoplesdispatch.org/2022/10/25/the-west-must-stop-blocking-negotiations-between-ukraine-and-russia/
• https://braveneweurope.com/michael-von-der-schulenburg-hajo-funke-harald-kujat-peace-for-ukraine
• https://mronline.org/2023/12/07/west-sabotaged-ukraine-peace-deal-with-russia-admit-zelensky-official-and-germanys-ex-leader/
• https://www.aaronmate.net/p/ukraines-top-negotiator-confirms
• https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/113/107/658/870/477/437/original/3a02f12a005a503b.mp4
• Nuland admitting stopping negotiations https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiS2dg_atfc

misc sources

• https://kitklarenberg.substack.com/p/anatomy-of-a-coup-how-cia-front-laid
• https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2022/11/18/nato-expansion-and-the-origins-of-russias-invasion-of-ukraine/
• https://nationalinterest.org/feature/causes-and-consequences-ukraine-crisis-203182
• https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/neo-nazis-far-right-ukraine/
• https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/01/19/ukraine-russia-nato-crisis-liberal-illusions/
• https://www.researchgate.net/publication/299383810_The_Separatist_War_in_Donbas_A_Violent_Break-up_of_Ukraine
• https://jacobinmag.com/2022/02/maidan-protests-neo-nazis-russia-nato-crimea
• https://www.internationalmagz.com/articles/conversation-with-dmitri-kovalevich

There is a degree of that, but often it's overplayed by pro-Ukrainian people to the degree that they believe Russia is trying to ethnically cleanse Ukraine, which is wrong, and is purely justification for continuing an unpopular war that the west uses to damage Russia and carve Ukraine out for resources.