The MFA mocks Russia's claims about an alleged plot based on Mihail Kogălniceanu: “Soviet espionage novels were not exactly brilliant”
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The spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MAE), Andrei Tărnea, reacted on Tuesday to the claims of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), which claims to have thwarted a plot by Ukrainian and British spies linked to the Mihail Kogălniceanu base.
The FSB, the main successor to the Soviet-era KGB, announced that Ukrainian and British spies wanted to convince Russian pilots to steal a MiG-31 jet equipped with a hypersonic Kinjal missile for $3 million. Then, the hijacked plane was to be flown to a NATO air base in Constanța, where it could have been shot down by Romania's anti-aircraft defense, according to RIA, cited by Reuters.
The MAE reacted to the FSB's claims through its spokesperson.
“Soviet espionage novels were not exactly brilliant, being propaganda exercises. The same is true today of Russian news invented with spies. What is real, however, is Russian aggression and the Russian challenges that these stories with planes and spies try to cover,” wrote Andrei Țărnea on the X platform.
