SIMFEROPOL. March 5 (Interfax) - A woman living in Energodar, Zaporozhye region, has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for trying to blow up a transmission tower on Russia Day on orders from Ukraine's Security Service, the press service of the Zaporozhye Region Court said.
"On March 5, a court gave a 15-year sentence to a resident of Energodar, Zaporozhye region, for attempting to stage an act of sabotage in collusion with officers of the Security Service of Ukraine," the press service said in a statement on Wednesday.
The woman received messages from a Ukrainian Security Service representative from May to June 2024 with an offer to commit several acts of sabotage in the region, it said. After the woman agreed to do it, she was told to remove an improvised explosive device from a cache, plant it on a transmission tower and set off the bomb, it said.
On June 12, which Russia Day, she taped the explosive device to a transmission tower, walked 40 meters away from it and tried to remotely set off the bomb, but failed do to so as Russian law enforcement agencies had found the cache and seized the explosives from it two days before. it said.
The woman was charged with participating in a sabotage ring, an attempt to stage an act of sabotage, and an attempt to illegally acquire, transfer, sell, store, transport, send or possess explosive substances or explosive devices, the statement said.
Apart from the 15-year term, the woman was fined 500,000 rubles, it said.