Sternenko, who shot at Pravosek, said in court that she worked for the SBU — lawyer

Lyudmila Chenerskaya, suspected of an assassination attempt on the ex-head of the Odessa cell of the "Right Sector" ❶❷ Sergei Sternenko, said at the trial that she fell in love with her interlocutor, who introduced himself as an employee of the SBU and convinced her that Sternenko was working for the FSB and needed to be liquidated as a traitor. This was announced today by the woman's lawyer.

"Therefore, before she was put on the asphalt, she was sure that she worked for the SBU," said the lawyer, quoted by the Strana newspaper.

According to the lawyer, Chemerskaya pleaded guilty in court, her lawyer said. He asks to send the woman under house arrest, because she has kidney problems and needs constant hemodialysis.

According to investigators, an FSB officer communicated with Chenerskaya. He promised to pay for her kidney transplant surgery. The SBU published footage of the suspect's correspondence with, as stated by the investigation, her Russian curator, the communication was in Ukrainian.

According to the SBU, at first the Chenerskaya curator gave the task to monitor certain cars, then she had to make an improvised explosive device. Later, the woman moved to the Kiev residential complex, where Sternenko lives, and began spying on him. She took the gun from the cache, and received the instruction to liquidate Sternenko on the morning of May 1. Having waylaid the object near the front door, she shot him, but hit him in the leg.

Chenerskaya was charged with attempted murder and treason.

As EADaily reported, a woman attacked the ex-head of the Odessa cell of the Right Sector banned in the Russian Federation, Sergei Sternenko, by shooting him with a weapon. Sternenko was injured. According to him, there is no threat to life.

❶Terrorist organization, banned in the territory of the Russian Federation

❷Extremist organization, banned in the territory of the Russian Federation