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What did Kyiv say about the Constitution Day plot?
Summary
A look back at the reported plan to storm parliament and the four arrests announced by Ukrainian officials.
What was the plot Ukrainian officials said they had uncovered? On 1 July 2024, it was reported that authorities had found a plan to storm parliament and seize control from the government of the day on Constitution Day, and that four individuals implicated in it had been arrested.
Constitution Day is a public holiday marked in Ukraine on 28 June. It has been celebrated since 1996 and commemorates the Verkhovna Rada's approval of the Constitution of Ukraine on 28 June 1996. The reported plan was tied to that holiday.
What was reported
The account on 1 July 2024 was brief. Officials described a scheme to storm parliament and take power from the current government. Four people were arrested in connection with it.
The reports gave no further detail on that date about who the four were, how the plan was discovered, or how far it had progressed. They did not describe any charges or any wider network behind it.
The announcement was notable for its target: the parliament, the body whose approval of the constitution the holiday commemorates, and the government then in office.
