Lavrov Slams London for Failed Plot to Hijack a Russian MiG-31 to Attack NATO Airbase

Nov. 13—This one would have been the mother of all false flag attacks. According to TASS, the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) issued a statement reporting that “the Federal Security Service has uncovered and thwarted an operation by the Ukrainian Defense Ministry’s Main Intelligence Directorate and its UK supervisors to hijack a Russian MiG-31 supersonic fighter jet, which is equipped with a Kinzhal hypersonic missile, and fly it abroad. In order to hijack the aircraft, Ukrainian military intelligence officers tried to recruit Russian pilots, offering $3 million. The special services then planned to send the jet with the Kinzhal missile to the area where NATO’s largest airbase in southeastern Europe is located, in the Romanian city of Constanta, where it could be shot down by air defenses,” the FSB reported. The Kinzhal is capable of carrying both nuclear and non-nuclear warheads.

“The measures taken have thwarted the plans of the Ukrainian and UK intelligence services to carry out a large-scale provocation,” according to the FSB. TASS added that “Constanta, located in southeastern Romania, is home to the largest NATO military base in Europe, which is currently under construction. The town will house 10,000 NATO servicemen, their families, and technical personnel.”

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov lit into the British role in this insane provocation, and many others, in a Nov. 11 press conference, adding further details to the FSB account.

“London’s penchant for provoking situations is, of course, notorious. Take the recent case where the Russian FSB exposed a plot to trick a Russian pilot, flying a fighter jet armed with a Kinzhal missile, into flying to a base in Constanta, Romania with a fake order. The obvious intent was for the plane to be shot down, creating a pretext to accuse Russia of attacking NATO. But I’ll set that aside for now; the FSB has already laid out the details. I don’t know how the British will wash away the stain, but they’ve always had a remarkable talent for this, like a duck that waddles away from a shower without a drop of water on its back.

“The former empire that once ruled most of the world is gone, and so is the ‘good old England’ they so love to parade. They have little economic weight left, and their military might is relatively weak, as even their nuclear arsenal isn’t fully under their control. They have to compensate for this weakness somehow, so they fall back on that traditional English aspiration to ‘divide and conquer,’ to put it politely. There are, of course, less charitable terms for their actions and goals.”