 Nyorai mberi kweiyi ndima - Munguva yesarudzo yemutungamiri weUkraine ya2004, Putin akashanyira Ukraine kaviri sarudzo dzisati dzaitwa kuratidza kutsigira kwake mutungamiri wehurumende yeUkraine Viktor Yanukovych, uyo aionekwa zvikuru semumiriri weKremlin, uye akamukorokotedza nekukunda kwake kwaitarisirwa sarudzo dzisati dzaitwa. Rutsigiro rwaPutin pachake kuna Yanukovych rwakashoropodzwa sekupindira kusiri pamutemo munyaya dzehurumende yakazvimiririra Onawo The Orange revolution. Matambudziko akaitikawo muukama hweRussia neGeorgia neMoldova, nyika mbiri dzaichimbova Soviet Republic dzaipomera Moscow kuti inotsigira mapoka evanhu vanotsvaka kuparadzana munharaunda dzawo. 