Russia says it foiled a Ukraine-UK plot to entice one of its pilots to steal a missile-carrying jet. Photo: AP PHOTO

Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said it had foiled a plot by Ukrainian and British spies to tempt Russian pilots to steal a MiG-31 jet armed with a Kinzhal hypersonic missile, state media reported on Tuesday.

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The RIA news agency cited the FSB as saying that the hijacked jet was to be flown toward a NATO air base in the Romanian city of Constanta, where it could have been shot down by air defences, the agency reported.

The FSB, the main successor to the Soviet

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