“The FSB revealed and foiled an intelligence operation by the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense and its British curators aimed at hijacking a MiG-31 fighter jet as a carrier of a Kinzhal hypersonic missile,” the Interfax agency quoted from a communique of the Russian secret service.
Ukrainian reporters allegedly tried to lure Russian pilots to the promised reward of three million dollars (about 63 million crowns). The secret services should have directed the fighter over the area of the NATO base in Romania near Constance, and let it be shot down there. The organizers of the provocation also planned to smear the oxygen mask with a poisonous substance, the Russian embassy in the Netherlands said.
The statement of the embassy does not make sense. It is not clear why Ukrainian and British intelligence would want to convince Russian pilots to fly a MiG-31 with a Kinzhal missile to Romania, where the plane would be shot down instead of landing there and Western experts could examine it. Likewise, it makes no sense to smear the oxygen mask with poison.
The Russian embassy demands that the Netherlands pay attention to “Kiev’s endless attempts to drag the alliance and the kingdom into a direct military confrontation with Russia.”
Allegation of use of chemical substances
The embassy not only warns of the threat of disruption of European security, but with a statement published on Telegram, it tries to alert the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) to “the continuing attempts of the Kyiv regime to use chemical weapons for terrorist purposes.” The organization has its headquarters in The Hague, which is probably the reason why the Russian embassy in the Netherlands is involved in the case. It is another accusation against Kyiv of using banned substances.
Already on Saturday, the permanent representative of Russia at the OPCW, Vladimir Tarabrin, stated that Moscow continues to document the use of chemical weapons by Kiev and the existence of a network of laboratories for their production in Ukraine, TASS wrote.
The diplomat added that Russia asked the technical secretariat of the OPCW to send experts who would provide technical assistance in accordance with the provisions of the Convention on the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. He emphasized that the provocations organized by the Ukrainian intelligence services with the support of Kyiv’s allies were made possible “thanks to the extensive access of the Ukrainian armed forces to the special equipment of the Russian security forces in Ukraine itself, but also in the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk Republics and in some areas of the Kursk Region.”
Russia indirectly admits that it has unspecified special equipment in the Donbass and the Kursk region, where it is not clear whether it is in accordance with international provisions
Last summer, the FSB claimed to have foiled an attempt by Kyiv to hijack a strategic bomber. Similar to now, the claim could not be verified.
The summer before last, the Ukrainian secret service managed to recruit Russian helicopter pilot Maxim Kuzminov, who was an opponent of the Russian invasion of the neighboring country. He flew over the territory under the control of Ukraine with the Mi-8 helicopter. Last February, the deserter was found dead in Spain.
