2024 Ukrainian coup attempt allegations

Failed attempt to overthrow Ukrainian government

2024 Ukrainian coup attempt

Part of the Russian invasion of Ukraine

Image of the alleged primary ringleader taken by the SBU
| Date| 1 July 2024; 7 months ago (2024-07-01)

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Location|

Kyiv and Ivano-Frankivsk

Result|  Coup failed, Security Service arrests plotters
Belligerents

Government of Ukraine

* President of Ukraine
* Verkhovna Rada
* Security Service of Ukraine

|  Russophiles[clarification needed]
Supported by:
Russia (per Ukraine)[1]
Commanders and leaders
Volodymyr Zelenskyy
Vasyl Malyuk|  Four unnamed activists
Casualties and losses
Unknown|  Two leaders detained

On 1 July 2024, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) said that it had foiled a pro-Russian attempt to overthrow the government of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy by members of a Kyiv-based NGO.[2][3][4][1]

## Background

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Russian invasion of Ukraine

Timeline

*     * February – April 2022
* April – August 2022
* August – November 2022
* November 2022 – June 2023
* June – August 2023
* September – November 2023
* December 2023 – March 2024
* April – July 2024
* August – December 2024
* January 2025 – present

* * *

* Prelude
* Casualties
* Territorial control
* map
* List of engagements
* War crimes
* Attacks on civilians
* Economic impact
* Peace negotiations
* Collaboration with Russia
* Russian emigration
* Nuclear risk
* Humanitarian impacts
* Russian annexation
* Treatment of prisoners of war

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Russian invasion of Ukraine (2022)

Northern front

* Antonov Airport
* Chernobyl
* Hostomel
* Kyiv
* Kyiv strikes
* shopping centre bombing
* Russian Kyiv convoy
* Bucha
* massacre
* Irpin
* refugee column shelling
* Makariv
* Moshchun
* Kozarovytska Dam
* Brovary
* Slavutych
* Borodianka
* Sumy
* ammonia leak
* Chernihiv
* Chernihiv strikes
* 3 March 2022 bombing
* 16 March 2022 breadline attack
* Lebedyn
* Northern Ukraine skirmishes
* Desna

* * *

Eastern front

* Mariupol
* hospital airstrike
* theatre airstrike
* art school bombing
* 1st Kharkiv
* Kharkiv strikes
* February cluster bombing
* government building airstrike
* March cluster bombing
* April cluster bombing
* dormitories missile strike
* Chuhuiv Air Base
* Volnovakha
* Izium
* massacre
* Stara Krasnianka
* Donetsk
* March 2022 attack
* June 2022 attack
* September 2022 attack
* Rubizhne
* Popasna
* Marinka
* Kramatorsk
* railway station attack
* Battle of Donbas
* Siverskyi Donets
* school bombing
* Sievierodonetsk
* Lysychansk
* Chasiv Yar strike
* Pisky
* Olenivka massacre
* Bakhmut
* Soledar
* Vuhledar
* Makiivka
* 2nd Kharkiv
* Kupiansk
* civilian convoy shelling
* 2nd Lyman
* Luhansk Oblast campaign
* Velyka Novosilka
* Russian Winter Offensive

* * *

Southern front

* Kherson
* Kherson strikes
* Melitopol
* Mykolaiv
* bombing
* 7 March 2022 military quarters attack
* cluster bombing
* 18 March 2022 military quarters attack
* government building airstrike
* Chornobaivka
* Enerhodar
* Zaporizhzhia NPP
* Voznesensk
* Berdiansk
* Huliaipole
* Davydiv Brid
* Crimea
* Novofedorivka
* 1st Crimean Bridge
* 1st Sevastopol Naval Base
* Kherson counteroffensive
* Prelude
* Nova Kakhovka
* Liberation of Kherson
* Dnieper

* * *

Other regions

* Zaporizhzhia
* civilian convoy attack
* residential building airstrike
* Ivano-Frankivsk
* Kryvyi Rih
* Lviv
* Odesa
* Zhytomyr
* Rivne
* Vinnytsia
* Dnipro
* Yavoriv
* Khmelnytskyi
* Kremenchuk
* Serhiivka
* Chaplyne
* Strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure

* * *

Naval operations

* Snake Island
* Berdiansk
* Moskva

* * *

Spillover & related incidents

* Western Russia
* Millerovo
* Dyagilevo and Engels air bases
* 2022 protests in Russian-occupied Ukraine
* Zeitenwende speech
* Zagreb Tu-141 crash
* Russian mystery fires
* Transnistria
* 2022 Russian mobilization
* Nord Stream pipeline sabotage
* 2022 Russian Far East protests
* Soloti training ground shooting
* Poland missile explosion
* 2022 Russian martial law
* Lady R incident

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Russian invasion of Ukraine (2023)

Northern Ukraine skirmishes
* Kyiv strikes
* Chernihiv strikes

* * *

Eastern front

* Marinka
* Russian Winter Offensive
* Bakhmut
* Soledar
* Luhansk Oblast campaign
* Vuhledar
* Makiivka
* Kramatorsk strike
* Lyman cluster bombing
* Kostiantynivka
* Hroza
* Avdiivka
* Kharkiv strikes
* Velyka Novosilka

* * *

Southern front

* Huliaipole
* Dnieper
* Kakhovka Dam
* Crimea strikes
* 2nd Crimean Bridge
* 2nd Sevastopol Naval Base
* 2023 Ukrainian counteroffensive (Mala Tokmachka)
* Zarichne
* Mykolaiv strikes
* Zaporizhzhia NPP

* * *

Other regions

* Sloviansk
* Uman
* Pokrovsk
* Zaporizhzhia
* Ivano-Frankivsk
* Kryvyi Rih
* Lviv
* Odesa
* Zhytomyr
* Rivne
* Vinnytsia
* Dnipro
* 14 January 2023 strikes
* 29 December 2023 strikes
* Khmelnytskyi
* Strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure

* * *

Spillover & related incidents

* Western Russia
* Bryansk Oblast
* Kremlin drone attack
* Belgorod Oblast incursion
* Moscow drone strikes
* 30 December 2023 Belgorod shelling
* Brovary helicopter crash
* Black Sea drone incident
* Belgorod accidental bombing
* Synytsia

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Russian invasion of Ukraine (2024)

Northern Ukraine skirmishes
* Kyiv strikes
* Chernihiv strikes

* * *

Eastern front

* Luhansk Oblast campaign
* Avdiivka
* Vuhledar
* Donetsk strike
* Lysychansk strike
* Chasiv Yar
* Krasnohorivka
* Ocheretyne
* 3rd Kharkiv
* Kharkiv strikes
* Toretsk
* Pokrovsk
* Pokrovsk strike
* Kurakhove
* Velyka Novosilka

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Southern front

* Huliaipole
* Dnieper
* Kherson strikes
* Mykolaiv strikes
* Zaporizhzhia
* Zaporizhzhia NPP
* Crimea strikes
* Odesa
* Dnipro

* * *

Other regions

* Ivano-Frankivsk
* Poltava
* Kryvyi Rih
* Lviv
* 6 March strike
* Zhytomyr
* Rivne
* Vinnytsia
* Khmelnytskyi
* Strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure
* 22 March strikes
* 26 August strikes
* 17 November strikes

* * *

Naval operations

* Tendra Spit

* * *

Spillover & related incidents

* Kursk offensive
* Olgovskiy Forest
* Western Russia
* February 2024 Belgorod missile strike
* May 2024 Belgorod missile strike
* March 2024 western Russia incursion
* Korochansky Ilyushin Il-76 crash
* Skadovsk polling center bombing
* June 2024 Ukraine peace conference
* 2024 Ukrainian coup attempt allegations
* 2024 Ukrainian cyberattacks against Russia
* Toropets explosions
* North Korean involvement
* Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 8243

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Russian invasion of Ukraine (2025)

Northern Ukraine skirmishes
* Kyiv strikes
* Chernihiv strikes

* * *

Eastern front

* Luhansk Oblast campaign
* 3rd Kharkiv
* Chasiv Yar
* Toretsk
* Pokrovsk
* Kurakhove
* Velyka Novosilka

* * *

Southern front

* Dnipro

* * *

Other regions

* Kryvyi Rih
* Strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure

* * *

Spillover & related incidents

* Kursk offensive
* Western Russia
* North Korean involvement

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Resistance to the Russian invasion of Ukraine

* Ukrainian resistance
* Belarusian resistance

* rail war in Belarus
* Machulishchy air base attack

* Russian anti-war resistance

* rail war in Russia
* Russian commissariat attacks
* Ust-Ilimsk shooting
* St. Petersburg cafe bombing

In February 2024, the Main Directorate of Intelligence of Ukraine said that a coup may be attempted in the spring of 2024.[5][6]

In May 2024, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) arrested two army colonels who were engaged in a plot to kidnap Zelenskyy and deliver him to Russian President Vladimir Putin, or, should that prove too difficult, assassinate him.[7][2][8]

## Events

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The SBU announced that the plotters were preparing to detain the government and "announce the ‘removal from power’ of the current military-political leadership of Ukraine" before then seizing the Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine's national parliament) to prevent its ability to respond.[2][4][3] The SBU then published photos of the four ring leaders who had been arrested, with their faces blurred, stating that they were all residents of Ivano-Frankivsk and known pro-Russian agitators who had a history of attending anti-government protests.[2][1] The SBU also reported that they had seized a cache of assault rifles, sniper rifles, handguns, ammunition, laptops, mobile phones and hand-drawn coup instructions.[2] The centerpiece of the plot was to trigger a riot on June 30 as a distraction to seize control of various buildings.[2][9] They also planned to storm the Verkhovna Rada building.[10][11]

The plotters plans outlined spreading false information throughout the country via social media "to destabilise the socio-political situation within [Ukraine], which would play out in favour of the Russian Federation."[2][3] The plotters were spread throughout the country, operating in cells of no more than three, and communicated to one another through instant messaging via Telegram.[2] The leader of the plot stated that they would have organized as a "Veche" and would have sought public support.[2] The plotters had rented a hall in Kyiv that could accommodate upwards of 2,000, and were supposedly in contact with elements of the military and several mercenary groups to recruit them to their cause.[3][9] The SBU said that as well as mobilising in Kyiv, the coup plotters had grassroots organisations in Dnipro and other Ukrainian cities.[2]

The office of Ukraine’s prosecutor general said the alleged leader of the plot is a head of a non-governmental entity, who had "the experience of participating in fruitless provocative events" prior to the coup attempt.[9]

Four suspects have been identified and two currently are in the SBU's custody. They face up to 10 years in prison if found guilty.[12]

## Reactions

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* Russia: The Russian government refused to comment on the allegations that they had helped organize the plotters.[2][4]

## See also

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* 2021 Ukrainian coup attempt allegations
* 2023 Moldovan coup d'état attempt allegations

## References

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1. ^ a b c Santora, Marc (1 July 2024). "Ukraine Says It Foiled Another Russian Plot to Topple the Government". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2 July 2024. Retrieved 3 July 2024 - via NYTimes.com.
2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Kilner, James. "Ukraine foils 'Russian-backed coup'". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 5 July 2024. Retrieved 3 July 2024.
3. ^ a b c d Talmazan, Yuliya (2 July 2024). "Coup attempt thwarted in Ukraine, Security Service says, as Hungary's Orbán arrives in Kyiv for talks". NBC. Archived from the original on 2 July 2024. Retrieved 3 July 2024.
4. ^ a b c Saric, Ivana. "Ukraine's security service foils coup attempt". Axios. Archived from the original on 2 July 2024. Retrieved 3 July 2024.
5. ^ "Ukraine's intelligence committee fears attempt will be made in spring to overthrow Zelenskyy". Archived from the original on 20 May 2024. Retrieved 5 July 2024.
6. ^ "Ukrainian intelligence anticipates coup attempt this spring". Archived from the original on 18 May 2024. Retrieved 5 July 2024.
7. ^ Kilner, James (7 May 2024). "Ukraine arrests two security officials over plot to assassinate Zelensky". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 1 July 2024. Retrieved 3 July 2024.
8. ^ https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/05/07/ukraine-zelensky-assassination-plot-arrests/
9. ^ a b c Knight, Mariya; Harvey, Lex (2 July 2024). "Ukraine says it thwarted a plot to overthrow the government". CNN. Archived from the original on 2 July 2024. Retrieved 3 July 2024.
10. ^ "Ukraine foils Russian-backed coup attempt – DW – 07/01/2024". Deutsche Welle. Archived from the original on 2 July 2024. Retrieved 5 July 2024.
11. ^ "Archived copy". MSN. Archived from the original on 2 July 2024. Retrieved 5 July 2024.`{{cite web}}`: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
12. ^ "Ukraine's Security Service Thwarts Attempted Coup". News Radio 830 KHVH. Archived from the original on 2 July 2024. Retrieved 4 July 2024.

## Notes

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Plots and conspiracies

Before the 16th century|

* Ancient Egypt
* 1155 BC
* Roman Republic (63 BC)
* Roman Empire (65)
* Holy Roman Empire (1062)
* Mamluk Sultanate (1386)
* England (1415)
* Florence (1478)

16th century|

* France (1560)
* France (1567)
* Sweden (1569)
* Sweden (1574)
* Sweden (1576)
* England (1586)
* Philippines (1587)

17th century|

* England (1603)
* Bye Plot
* Main Plot
* England (1605)
* England (1641)
* Hungary (1670)

18th century|

* Naples (1701)
* France (1718)
* Great Britain (1721)
* Malta (1749)
* Sweden (1756)
* Chile (1781)
* United States (1783)
* Portuguese India (1787)
* Sweden (1788)
* Sweden (1789)
* Sweden (1793)
* Venezuela (1797)
* Mexico (1799)

19th century|

* France (1800)
* France (1804)
* United States (1807)
* United Kingdom (1820)
* France (1820)
* Colombia (1828)
* Philippines (1828)
* Georgia (1832)

20th century|

* Venezuela (1907)
* Russia (1917)
* Ukraine (1919)
* United States (1933)
* Germany (1938)
* Germany (1944)
* Pakistan (1951)
* Cambodia (1959)
* United Kingdom (1968)
* Libya (1970)
* China (1971)
* Morocco (1973)
* Spain (1978)
* Zimbabwe (1980)
* Peru (1992)
* Pakistan (1995)

21st century|

* Cambodia (2000)
* Laos (2007)
* Zimbabwe (2007)
* Ivory Coast (2012)
* Comoros (2013)
* Montenegro (2016)
* United States (2020)
* Ukraine (2021)
* Armenia (2021)
* Democratic Republic of the Congo (2022)
* Ukraine (2022)
* Germany (2022)
* Brazil (2022)
* Moldova (2023)
* Sierra Leone (2023)
* Democratic Republic of the Congo (2024)
* Ukraine (2024)
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