This is not, strictly speaking, a "false" statement. The coup d'état that Putin refers to is the one that took place in 2014, which was backed by the US (CIA) and allowed the US to install an "interim" government that was hand picked by the US State Department and Victoria Nuland. This is not in dispute; it is an accepted fact now. The coup in 2014 ledt to a covio; war because the ethnic Russians in the east refused to live under the illegal coup regime. You may recall that the Western media refers to these provinces as "breakaway" regions. Zelensky won election by promising to bring peace. His platform was one of reconciliation and peacce. He would not have had a platform if the coup of 2014 had not taken place.