Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) claimed on Tuesday to have prevented a joint Ukrainian-British plot to hijack a Russian MiG-31 fighter jet armed with a Kinzhal hypersonic missile. According to the FSB, the alleged plan aimed to use the aircraft in a “false flag” attack against NATO’s new airbase in Constanta, Romania, one of the alliance’s largest facilities in Southeastern Europe.
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The agency said Ukrainian intelligence, with alleged British backing, had tried to persuade a Russian pilot to defect by offering $3 million and European citizenship. Russian state media showed purported messages and recordings of the individual involved.
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An FSB official also accused British-based investigative group Bellingcat of acting as a cover or intermediary in the scheme—an allegation the group has previously denied in similar 2022 claims involving a Sukhoi Su-34.
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Moscow’s statement comes as the information war between Russia, Ukraine, and Western powers intensifies, even as the battlefield remains locked in a slow-moving conflict across eastern Ukraine.
