Coup Attempt In Russia 2025. After russia accused powerful paramilitary leader yevgeny prigozhin of attempting a coup — with prigozhin vowing to avenge any casualties at the hands of russian troops — mcfaul said putin. Russia wants to stage a coup d’état in moldova, the country’s president maia sandu said monday.

This was not a coup attempt, as we now have learned. Moldova’s president has claimed russia’s wagner paramilitaries were behind a thwarted coup attempt that aimed to depose her as head of state as part of a campaign to destabilise the country.