According to information shared with RT, Kiev’s spies offered Russian pilots money and EU citizenship as a reward
Russian intelligence has said it foiled a sophisticated plot by Kiev spies to hijack several military jets. An intelligence official and a pilot, who is said to have been targeted by the Ukrainians, shared details of the operation with RT.
Early in the ongoing conflict, Kiev compiled a publicly available list of military hardware, promising monetary rewards for potential defectors who managed to bring the equipment with them. The more elaborate the weapons were, the better the rewards that were promised, with warplanes, helicopters and tanks fetching the top prize of up to $1 million.
When the public call for defectors fell flat, Ukraine’s security service targeted individual Russian servicemen – pilots in particular – directly. They apparently traced and identified the pilots through the digital trail they left online, an…
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