US EditionRussia says foiled spy plot to steal MiG-31 jet armed with hypersonic missile
Ukrainian and British intelligence allegedly offered $3 million to recruit Russian pilots to steal a MiG-31 jet armed with a Kinzhal missile for a staged NATO provocation.
- On Tuesday, Russia's Federal Security Service said it had foiled a plot by Ukrainian and British spies, state media reported.
- The plan, the FSB says, aimed to be a large-scale `provocation`, and Ukrainian military intelligence sought to recruit Russian pilots for $3 million to steal the fighter.
- State TV broadcast messages and recordings of a man said to work for Ukrainian and British intelligence who offered a Russian pilot citizenship.
- RIA cited the FSB saying the aircraft was to be flown toward a NATO air base in Constanta, Romania, where it could have been shot down, while Moscow accuses London of stoking the Ukraine war.
- Images from a 2018 test show a MiG-31 jet launching a Kinzhal hypersonic missile, an air-launched ballistic missile Moscow calls hypersonic and capable of manoeuvring flight paths.
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Russia's secret service is making serious accusations: Did Kiev want to kidnap a Russian fighter jet and attack a NATO base?
The Russian Federal Security Service also accused the investigative portal Bellingcat of participating in the operation.
The Russian domestic intelligence service FSB wants to have prevented the abduction of a fighter jet MiG-31 along with a hypersonic rocket "Kinschal" by Ukraine. For allegedly three million US dollars (2.59 million euros) a Russian pilot should be seduced to desert his plane and head for the NATO base Constanta in Romania, the FSB explained on Tuesday in Moscow. He was responsible for the Ukrainian military intelligence service HUR as well as Gr…
Russia denounced on Tuesday a "provocation" orchestrated by Ukraine and its British ally which, according to it, aimed to hijack a fighter plane...
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