Janukovic asked EU first, they sent him home ("the problem with Ukrainian financing is your own, we don't care"). Then he asked Russia for a loan and they said yes.
Yanukovych had requested whopping $160 bln. And just guess where a large part of this sum would go.
So his requirement looked like extortion, moreover, after a little shock I realized that this money meant "You give me 160 billions, I sell you Ukraine and you can do anything you want there".
