On Tuesday, November 11th, Russia said it had foiled an Anglo-Ukrainian plot to hijack a military jet carrying a hypersonic missile, which they planned to take to Romania in a “large-scale provocation.”
Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said it
had uncovered and thwarted an operation by the Ukrainian Ministry of Defence and its British supervisors to steal a Russian MiG-31 high-altitude supersonic fighter jet, which carries the Kinzhal hypersonic air-launched missile.
Kyiv allegedly planned to have the plane flown towards a NATO base in Constanța on the Black Sea, where it would have been “shot down” by air defences, the FSB said.
In retaliation, the FSB said Russian forces had hit a Ukrainian military intelligence centre and airfield in the Kyiv and Khmelnitsky regions.
