Putin did try rapprochement, but USA replied with colour revolutions, the coup in Ukraine being the final nail in the coffin.
That "coup" (more of a revolution, actually) in Ukraine was in response to Yanukovych's authoritarianism, such as when he pressured four Ukrainian Constitutional Court judges to resign, put his political opponent Tymoshenko on trial and jailed her, altered Ukraine's election rules in order to give his side an advantage for the next election even though his opponents won the popular vote in Ukraine's 2012 parliamentary election, and used violence against peaceful protesters on the Maidan.
And color revolutions were primarily directed from below, not from above. They happened because Eastern Europeans wanted them to happen. Even Belarus had an attempted color revolution, for goodness sake!