Russia planned to shoot down a passenger plane and blame Ukraine

The SBU neutralized an enemy sabotage group planning a terrorist attack. According to the plan, the saboteurs planned to shoot down a passenger plane and blame Ukraine for it. This was stated by the speaker of the SBU Artem Dekhtyarenko.

He said that the SBU carried out a multi-stage special operation, during which it neutralized a deeply conspiratorial sabotage and reconnaissance group of the enemy. Agents of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation were preparing a terrorist attack - they planned to shoot down a passenger plane over the territory of Russia or Belarus.

The occupiers intended to groundlessly accuse Ukraine and our partners of attacking the aircraft. To commit a provocation, the attackers wanted to fire at a civilian aircraft from a portable air defense system (MANPADS) Stinger.

In order to steal and covertly take out a foreign MANPADS abroad, representatives of the special services of the aggressor country gave the corresponding task to their intelligence group, Dekhtyarenko said.

According to the intelligence service, the enemy DRG included two people with dual citizenship and an accomplice they recruited.