People invited to participate in coup for UAH 1,000 a day - Korniyenko

First Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Oleksandr Korniyenko has said that there are plans to bring people to the building of the Ukrainian parliament on December 1 and that people in the regions are being offered to participate in a coup for UAH 1,000 a day.

According to an Ukrinform correspondent, he said this at a briefing in the Verkhovna Rada on Tuesday, November 30.

"I would advise you to come earlier because passages could be blocked as part of a coup. There is an opinion that when they gather people in the regions for a thousand hryvnias a day, it doesn't look like a coup. If people don't want to take part in the coup for free, then that's a question," he said.

Korniyenko added that law enforcement had informed him about alleged plans to bring people to the building of parliament on December 1.

"These statements [about the probability of a coup] need to be taken seriously. They are being checked. The SBU opened proceedings yesterday. All this will be checked, and if any serious measures are really being planned, then, of course, the Security Service must respond," Korniyenko said.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on November 26 made extraordinary claims of a coup plot allegedly being masterminded by a group of Ukrainian and Russian nationals. The Ukrainian president said the country's law enforcers allegedly have in their disposal intercepted communications alleging a plan to drag Ukraine's wealthiest businessman Rinat Akhmetov into the plot.

The SBU said it was conducting an inquiry into certain citizens of Ukraine and Russia plotting to seize state power.

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