The SSU served a notice of suspicion to a russian citizen who was preparing a coup d'état in Ukraine. To this end, he planned to use NGOs in Ukraine to provoke unrest in western regions of our country. This, in turn, should have led to creation of ‘people’s republics’ in the region.

The SSU averted these plans of the kremlin in spring this year, when the Service detained leaders of these ‘NGOs’.

As a result of painstaking operational and investigative efforts, the SSU identified the russian ideologist of the coup. This person is connected to russian special services and was coordinated by certain representatives of russian presidential administration.

According to the investigation, this individual is the founder of civil organizations in the aggressor state that support the idea of restoring the ussr as three ‘slavic’ states: Ukraine, russia and belarus.

After the Revolution of Dignity and the beginning of russia’s invasion, the man worked to support russia’s actions aimed at averting the European vector of Ukraine’s development. To this end, he entered into a conspiracy with a Ukrainian public and political figure associated with Viktor Medvedchuk’s ‘Ukrainian choice’, whom he promised support in seizing the state power in Ukraine.

The agreement between Ukrainian and russian participants included the use of civil organizations and funds established in russia and Ukraine to create a scheme for transferring funds from russia to Ukraine.

Preparing the ground for the coup d’etat, the involved persons disseminated openly and among like-minded people anti-Ukrainian appeals discrediting the current government and calling for its change by force, concluded and signed memorandums and agreements aimed at creating favorable conditions for forceful change of the constitutional order.

The organizers established additional pro-russian structures, which were to provide organizational and force support for the coup in Ukraine. In addition, these entities were to become a ‘source of personnel’ for the new government.

Before russia’s full-scale invasion, one of the suspects started recruiting members for the coup’s power wing.

The suspected russian citizen, before the full-scale aggression, came to Ukraine several times under the pretext of visiting relatives. During this time, he was coordinating pro-russian civil formations and individuals. Among other things, he provided ideological support to the members of Slavic people’s patriotic union party, which later changed its name to putin's policy party, and then - to United Rus. Court banned this political force for its anti-Ukrainian activities.

SSU investigators suspect the russian citizen of the crime under Article 109.1 of the CCU - conspiracy to forcibly change or overthrow constitutional order and seize state power.

The SSU Office in Ivano-Frankivsk Region exposed the unlawful activity under the procedural supervision of Ivano-Frankivsk Regional Prosecutor’s Office.