KIEV, Ukraine, Dec. 6 (UPI) -- Britain's Independent Monday revealed plans by the Ukraine government to stage a terror attack and blame it on the opposition party.
"One of the plans is to blow up a pipeline and blame it on opposition supporters," a senior unidentified government official told the newspaper.
The official said a senior member of the government had been appointed to overseeing terrorist acts for the Moscow-backed candidate and current Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych.
Yanukovych's backers fear the prospect of losing to Western-backed Viktor Yushchenko and are prepared to plunge the country into economic chaos, the source said.
The report said supporters of Yanukovych and outgoing President Leonid Kuchma are also playing on fears that inflation will wipe out people's savings as it did after the disintegration of the Soviet Union.
The country's supreme court ruled the Nov. 21 run-off election invalid based on corruption, and a second election is scheduled for Dec. 26.
