FSB foils plot to hijack MiG-31 fighter

Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) announced it had foiled a plot to steal a Russian MiG-31 fighter jet equipped with the Kinzhal hypersonic ballistic missile.

RT reported on November 11 that the FSB said that the Ukrainian military intelligence agency (HUR) coordinated with the British intelligence agency MI6 to carry out this plot. Their goal was to have the plane shot down over Romanian airspace, causing an international incident with NATO.

A MiG-31 pilot said that last year, a man who introduced himself as Sergey Lugovsky approached him, initially seeking advice, then offering money to persuade him to defect.

Russian fighter pilot and MiG-31 carrying Kinzhal missile that Ukrainian intelligence wanted to steal. Photo: TASS.

After the pilot refused, a Ukrainian agent using the name Aleksandr approached the navigator of the MiG-31 fighter jet, offering $3 million and a foreign passport in exchange for the navigator to fly the plane over an air base near Constanta, Romania.

However, this plot was stopped by the FSB.

Kiev has provided money and support to defectors in the past. In 2023, Russian Mi-8 pilot Maksim Kuzminov defected to Ukraine with the help of HUR. Two other crew members, unaware of Kuzminov’s plans, were killed when the helicopter landed on the other side of the front line. Kuzminov was assassinated a year later in Spain, where he was living under a new identity and a Ukrainian passport.

In 2022, the FSB accused former Bellingcat investigator Christo Grozev, a journalist of Bulgarian origin, of participating in a failed Ukrainian attempt to recruit Russian military pilots.

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