- Wednesday, March 12, 2025
By: Shubham Ghosh
SOURCES in Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) on Monday (25) said an attempt was made by Ukraine’s Main Directorate Intelligence to hijack Russia’s Aerospace Forces aircraft with backing of the western intelligence and primarily the British special services, Russia’s state-run TASS news agency said citing another channel report.
“It is obvious that the operation itself was conducted with the support of Western special services, first and foremost, the UK’s,” the source told the Rossiya-24 TV channel.
The Russian agency also said that a ‘Bellingcat’ (recognised as a foreign agent in Russia) reporter, Christo Grozev, took part in the operation.
He, it was claimed, found two delivery drivers in Moscow to make an advance payment to Russian pilots who allegedly agreed to participate in the hijacking operation.
“We know, not only from his statements, that Grozev is involved with MI6. In general, recently, Ukrainian intelligence has stopped hiding its ties with the special services of NATO countries and aspires to be closer to its sponsors from Washington and London,” the FSB operative was quoted as saying.
Earlier, the FSB reported that it foiled a NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation)-sponsored operation by the Main Directorate of Intelligence of Ukraine’s defense ministry to hijack the Russian warplanes.
According to a video recording of a talk with a Ukrainian military intelligence agent, they were ready to pay up to $2 million for a hijacked Russian aircraft, the Russian media source said.
