British foreign secretary Boris Johnson said that Russian spies may have planned to kill Montenegro’s former prime minister Milo Djukanovic.
Speaking to ITV on Sunday morning, Johnson said there was “plenty of evidence Russians are capable of all sorts of dirty tricks, including in Montenegro an attempted coup and possibly an attempted assassination”, Politico writes.
Johnson added there is “evidence Russia is perfectly capable of hacking into U.K. politics” but said there is no evidence someone is currently trying to “undermine the democratic process in Britain”.
The U.K. foreign secretary’s remarks come just days before his planned trip to Moscow where he is scheduled to meet his counterpart Sergei Lavrov.
Asked what message he is planning to convey to the Kremlin, Johnson said: “My personal feeling is one of deep, deep sadness.”
