Russian Intelligence Plotted Fake Attack on Orbán to Sway Election Campaign

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Russian Intelligence Plotted Fake Attack on Orbán to Sway Election Campaign - Lemmy.World

Russian intelligence operatives proposed staging an assassination attempt on Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán to reshape the country’s election campaign, according to The Washington Post on March 21. The newspaper reported that the proposal appeared in an internal document from Russia’s foreign intelligence service, the SVR, which was obtained and authenticated by a European intelligence service.

Instead they settled on fabricating an escalating Hungary/Ukraine conflict.