Nah, there’s no erasure of the agency of the people which was expressed by the uprising in DPR and LPR where people rebelled against the regime. Same agency is being currently expressed in Georgia where they’re kicking out western propagandists.
The fact that the west ran a coup in Ukraine is well documented, and it’s very clear that the fascist regime there does not represent the majority o the people. The very fact that Ukraine no longer has elections underscores just how unpopular this regime is.