FAUX-INDEPENDENT investigation organisation Bellingcat has denied involvement in a failed Ukrainian intelligence plot to hijack Russian fighter jets and persuade military pilots to defect. 

The Russian Security Service (FSB) has reported foiling the plot, which it said had been planned with the collusion of British intelligence services. 

“It is obvious that the operation itself was conducted with the support of Western special services, first and foremost, the UK’s,” a spokesman said on Monday.