ROSTOV-ON-DON. Oct 7 (Interfax) - The Southern Military District Court in the city of Rostov-on-Don has found Ukrainian citizen Irina Navalnaya guilty of attempting a terror attack near the building where the Primorsky District Administration was headquartered in Mariupol in 2022, the court's press service said.
"Navalnaya has been convicted and sentenced to eight years in a standard security correctional colony," the press service said in a statement.
The woman was earlier charged with attempting a terror attack and illegally acquiring, transferring, selling, possessing, transporting, sending or carrying explosives or explosive devices.
The court ruled that on September 20-21, 2022, while staying in Mariupol, Navalnaya contacted an unidentified individual via an online messaging service and agreed to carry out a terror attack. She then received information about the location of a cache of explosives and instructions to carry out a terror attack in the morning of September 27 near the building occupied by Mariupol's Primorsky District Administration, it said.
On the day she was supposed to carry out the terror attack, the woman used transport to bring an explosive device closer to a polling station located in the building and hid it nearby. After that, she went for a remote control. When Navalnaya came back, law enforcement agents apprehended her, according to the court.