The Severodonetsk City Court in Ukraine’s Luhansk Region has sentenced an agent of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) to ten years in prison for planning to blow up an ammonia storage tank in Severodonetsk, according to the Interfax-Ukraine news agency, citing the press center for the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU). According to the SBU, the agent was tasked with blowing up a storage tank containing 3.5 mt of ammonia at Severodonetsk Association Azot.
Earlier reports identified the agent as a Ukrainian acting as a Russian operative (GM July 10, p. 33). He was caught in the city of Severodonetsk, a few dozen miles from separatist-controlled Ukraine, as he was retrieving two grenade launchers from a weapons cache for the attack.