The Federal Security Service (FSB) of Russia stopped an attempt by Ukrainian military intelligence to hijack a Russian electronic warfare helicopter, the Public Relations Center (PSC) of the Russian intelligence service told RBC.
“The operation of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine to hijack a Mi-8MTPR-1 VKS electronic warfare helicopter was discovered and stopped,” the message says. According to the FSB officer, the GUR’s methods are the same: “bribery, blackmail, transporting family members of a serviceman abroad to controlled conditions, where they, in fact, will become hostages in the hands of the Ukrainian special services.”
Intelligence officers tried to recruit a Russian military pilot to hijack a helicopter into Ukraine.
In the video, the pilot tells how a GUR employee, a certain Sergei, approached him and offered to cross the line of combat contact and give the helicopter to Ukraine, after poisoning his colleagues from the crew. The pilot’s family was supposed to be transported to Chisinau, and from there to Ukraine. The pilot refused.
The voices of the people in the video have been changed and their faces are hidden.
The FSB reported the disruption of the operation of the Ukrainian Main Intelligence Directorate to hijack an electronic warfare helicopter
After the start of the military operation in Ukraine, the FSB repeatedly reported on preventing attempts to hijack aircraft by Ukrainian intelligence. The only successful case of hijacking known to date occurred in August 2023 – then a recruited Russian pilot, Maxim Kuzminov, hijacked an Mi-8 helicopter to Ukraine.
In return, he received $500 thousand and a new – Ukrainian – passport in the name of Igor Shevchenko, The New York Times wrote then. He was shot dead in February 2024 in the parking lot of his house in Spain.
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