MI6 and Ukraine’s HUR Planned to Provoke NATO Using Stolen Russian MiG-31; FSB

RUSSIA – The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Tuesday that the British Mi6 in coordination with the Ukraine’s military intelligence service (HUR) planned to steal an MiG-31 fighter jet armed with a Kinzhal hypersonic ballistic missile and fly it over Romanian airspace.

The Mi6 and HUR tried to persuade the MiG-31 fighter jet pilots to defect, with an aim of getting the fighter jet shot down in Romanian airspace, which would in turn provoke an incident with NATO.

The plan was however thwarted according to an FSB statement.

“The measures taken have thwarted the plans of Ukrainian and British intelligence to organize a large-scale provocation,” the statement said.

According to the MiG-31 pilot, he was contacted last year by a man who introduced himself as Sergey Lugovsky, a researcher for the open-source investigative group Bellingcat.

“I believe that Sergei’s goal in contacting me was to compromise me, so that he could later use it for intelligence purposes,” the pilot said.

When the pilot declined, a Ukrainian agent by the name Aleksandr approached the aircraft’s navigator, offering $3 million and a foreign passport in exchange for directing the plane to fly over an air base near Constanta, Romania.

Russian Forces Carry Out Retaliatory Strikes

In response to the planned NATO provocations, the Russian forces carried out retaliatory strikes using Kinzhal hypersonic missiles, that targeted the intelligence units of Ukraine.

“In response to the provocation of November 9-10, a Russian Aerospace Forces strike using Kinzhal hypersonic missiles hit the main electronic intelligence center of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine in the city of Brovary in the Kyiv region and the Starokostiantyniv airfield in the Khmelnytsky region, where the notorious F-16s are stationed,” an FSB statement said.