Putin's secret services have allegedly foiled an audacious British plot to pay off Russian soldiers and cajole them into defecting and become EU citizens.
The FSB, once headed by Vladimir Putin and which now gathers intelligence on behalf of the Russian war lord, claims the plot was hatched by British and Ukrainian intelligence aimed at embarrassing the Kremlin.
According to them, Kyiv military intelligence officers “tried to recruit Russian military pilots for a monetary reward and guarantees of obtaining citizenship of one of the EU countries".
