Physical disintegration follows political disintegration. Recall the failure of the Yanukovich government was right after a highly publicised agreement between Yanukovich and the putative leaders of the "revolution", brokered by the international community.

Witnessed by
For the EU
Radoslaw Sikorski, Polish foreign minister
Frank-Walter Steinmeier, German foreign minister
Laurent Fabius, French foreign minister
For the Russian Federation
Vladimir Lukin, Russian special envoy

That's a black eye for Germany and Poland, too. But somehow that's supposed to be Russia's fault?

A society committed to the notion that government is always bad will have bad government. And it doesn't have to be that way. — Paul Krugman