The United Kingdom will find it extremely difficult to disown itself of its role in the attempted hijacking of a MiG-31 fighter jet from Russia, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Tuesday.
"The FSB exposed everything in great detail, and I do not know how the British will wash their hands of it," Lavrov said in a hybrid interview with Russian media.
The UK has now lost its empire, economic and military power, but is trying to compensate for this, the foreign minister added.
Earlier in the day, the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) said that it had thwarted an operation by Ukrainian military intelligence and its UK handlers to hijack a Russian MiG-31 fighter jet armed with a Kinzhal hypersonic missile.
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Failed MiG-31 Hijack Plot: Ukrainian Intel Stuck to Western Political Directives
ReplyDeleteМасштабную провокацию киевского режима предотвратили в России. Как сообщили в ФСБ, украинские и британские спецслужбы планировали угнать российский истребитель МиГ-31 с гиперзвуковой ракетой "Кинжал".
ReplyDelete"Я не знаю, как британцы будут отмываться от этого" – Сергей Лавров прокомментировал разоблаченную ФСБ попытку Киева и Лондона угнать российский самолет МиГ-31 с ракетой "Кинжал".
ReplyDeleteRussian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says the UK's lack of shame for its role in the plot to hijack a MiG-31 jet is something to behold, like "a goose coming out of the shower."
ReplyDeleteLavrov made the statement in an interview with reporters, including those from TASS.
"London's role is to provoke in various situations, including the recent case when the FSB exposed a plot to force one of the Russian pilots on a fighter jet with a Kinzhal missile to fly, ostensibly at the invitation of the Constanta military base in Romania, with the explicit aim of getting this aircraft shot down there, accusing Russia of attacking the North Atlantic Alliance. But we leave that aside. The FSB exposed all this in great detail, I do not know how the British will wash themselves clean of it, although their ability to play the role of goose coming out of the shower is well known," Lavrov said.
Earlier, an FSB spokesperson told TASS that the FSB had disrupted an operation by Ukrainian and British intelligence agencies to hijack a Russian MiG-31 fighter jet with a Kinzhal hypersonic missile for its further use in a provocation against the largest NATO airbase in Romania.