Sounds like you're assuming that the Maidan sniper massacre was Yanukovych's doing. There is good reason to believe it was orchestrated by the far right because they didn't want a peaceful solution.

Ivan Katchanovski is a Ukrainian-born Canadian political scientist who is definitely not a Russian sympathizer. He has studied the history of the Maidan uprising and argues convincingly (IMO) for this conclusion.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/266855828_The_Snipe...

He also has a very interesting podcast with Robert Wright where he discusses this, among other issues related to the Ukraine war: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Rvx_M3_Yi0

I also recommend following his twitter account if you're interested in a fairly neutral perspective on the Ukraine war: https://x.com/I_Katchanovski