08.07.2024, Moscow.
Officers of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) prevented the hijacking of a Tu-22M3 strategic bomber, the agency’s press service wrote on July 8.
“Another attempt by Ukrainian special services to conduct an operation to hijack abroad a long-range strategic bomber Tu-22M3 of the Russian Air Force was prevented,” the statement reads.
It is noted that there is information on the involvement of NATO intelligence services in the attempted hijacking. The Russian military pilot was induced to hijack, offering money and citizenship of Italy. To do this, he needed to land a Tu-22M3 in Ukraine.
In the course of preventing the hijacking of the bomber, Russian counterintelligence officers obtained data that helped the Russian Armed Forces to strike the Ukrainian airfield Ozyornoye.
“My interlocutor did not even conceal that he was from the Ukrainian Security Service. He introduced himself as Pavel,” the Russian pilot told details about the attempt to recruit him.
The pilot said that he received a message in Telegram from an unknown person who started with threats to the pilot’s close relatives. The Ukrainian intelligence officer demanded to hijack Tu-22M3s, as well as to set fire to Russian aircraft and hand over data on combat jets.
Source: Rossa Primavera News Agency
