A Ukrainian court gave five years to a Luhansk woman who allegedly wanted to carry out a terrorist attack in the center of Kyiv
Political repression continues in Ukraine. The Pechersky District Court of Kyiv sentenced Lugansk resident Anastasia Kovalenko, who was accused of intending to carry out a terrorist attack in the center of the Ukrainian capital, to five years in prison.
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About it states the verdict of the Pechersk court, published in the Unified Register of Judicial Decisions.
As stated in the court decision, in December 2014, Kovalenko allegedly entered into a conspiracy with an unidentified person named “Konstantin” to commit a terrorist attack in Kyiv.
“In order to carry out her criminal intent, on December 16, 2014, she received a woman’s bag with an explosive device to carry out the task of detonating it in crowded places in Kiev, an RGD-5 grenade marked “198-78 T” and a fuse for the grenade marked “215-74 UZRGM 583”.
Also, in order to conceal telephone conversations regarding the planning and commission of a terrorist attack in Kiev, Kovalenko received a mobile phone with a SIM card, which she immediately began to use and which she had to get rid of after completing the task of committing the terrorist attack. At the same time, she left her mobile phone in Lugansk. Then Kovalenko from the central bus station in Lugansk went by intercity private irregular bus to Kiev. Upon arrival, she went to a friend’s apartment. The next day, the Luhansk woman took the explosives to the Arsenalnaya metro station, from where she went to Maidan Nezalezhnosti.
The explosives in the bag could be detonated by a remote signal or by the opening of a zipper, possibly by accidentally pulling out a scarf that was in the bag and served as a fuse for the explosive device. Then Kovalenko carried the bag with explosives to the square next to the Franko Theater, where she intended to leave the said improvised explosive device for the purpose of its subsequent detonation,” the verdict says.
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