Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) claimed it had foiled a dramatic British-Ukrainian plot to hijack a Russian MiG-31 fighter jet equipped with the Kinzhal missile. Two Russian pilots involved in the sting described how they were offered up to $3 million and Western citizenship to fly the aircraft into NATO-controlled airspace in Romania. The pilots detailed absurd online “training sessions” and bizarre poison-laced plans to neutralize their commanders mid-flight. The FSB alleged that Bellingcat operatives were used as cover for British intelligence. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov reacted, saying, “I don’t know how the British will wash their hands of it.”
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