WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has reportedly struck a deal with the Biden administration to plead guilty to a felony charge stemming from his role in one of the largest breaches of classified U.S. government material in history.

The Biden Department of Justice will seek a 62-month prison sentence for Assange, the same amount of time that he was imprisoned in the U.K. while he fought extradition charges, CNN reported. The plea deal allows the five years that he has served in the U.K. to count as time served, thus allowing him to avoid spending time in a U.S. prison.

He would be allowed to return immediately to his home country of Australia, the report said.

Assange was indicted by a Virginia federal grand jury in 2019 on more than a dozen charges that alleged he illegally obtained and disseminated classified information about U.S. Military operations overseas. He faced more than 175 years in prison.

He will instead appear in U.S. federal court in the Mariana Islands, where he will plead guilty to violating the Espionage Act.

Prosecutors said that Assange recruited individuals to “hack into computers and/or illegally obtain and disclose classified information.”

His highest profile recruit, U.S. Army intelligence analyst Bradley Manning, a man who claims that he is a woman and now goes by the name Chelsea, was convicted in 2010 for leaking hundreds of thousands of U.S. military records to WikiLeaks. Manning was sentenced to more than three decades behind bars but President Barack Obama commuted his sentence after only seven years.

Prosecutors say Assange conspired with Manning to steal and disseminate classified materials “up to the SECRET level”, a classification that signifies that unauthorized disclosure of the information “could be expected to cause serious damage to the national security.”

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Russian operatives were allegedly behind an arson attack on a German factory last month, according to western intelligence officials who say that the attack is part of Russia’s campaign to sabotage Ukraine’s war effort.

The Wall Street Journal reported that officials initially believed that that the fire at a Diehl Metal Applications factory was an accident.

They now believe that the fire was intentionally set by “Russian saboteurs trying disrupt shipments of critical arms and ammunition to Ukraine,” the report said.

The fire happened in an area of the factory where “only a few people had access,” the report said. All CCTV footage was allegedly destroyed in the fire.

An intelligence agency of a member state of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) intercepted electronic-communications that “provided evidence of Russia’s involvement,” but the evidence was not allowed in Germany’s court system thus preventing criminal charges from being filed and blame being placed on Russia.

European countries have tried to avoid escalating tensions with Russia amid its war in Ukraine but not placing blame on it for various mysterious incidents that have occurred on civilian and military infrastructure on the continent, the report said. Privately, however, they believe that Russia is responsible for at least some of the incidents.

The goal of Russia’s sabotage campaign is to cause division in country’s that support Ukraine. Russian nationals have been arrested for trying to attack U.S. military facilities in Germany and for carrying out attacks in the U.K.

Suspected cases of Russian sabotage include destroying an undersea gas pipelines and data cables in the Arctic and the Baltic Sea regions by civilian ships tied to Russia, the report said.

The report said that Russia is recruiting criminals on social media to carry out the attacks, some of whom may not be aware that they are being recruited by Russia and may believe that they are working for someone else. They are often paid in cryptocurrency.