RUSSIA ‘PLOTTED TO KILL MONTENEGRO PRIME MINISTER OVER NATO’

RUSSIA was going to kill the Prime Minister of Montenegro in a bid to sabotage the country’s plans to join Nato, Whitehall insiders claim.

A prosecutor in the former Yugoslavian country said “Russian nationalists” planned to attack the parliament building and kill pro-Western Milo Djukanovic on October 16 last year in an attempt to bring an opposition party to power.

A month later Mr Djukanovic stepped down as PM and was replaced by Dusko Markovic.

A Whitehall source said: “You are talking about a plot to disrupt or take over a government in some way. You can’t imagine that there wasn’t some kind of approval process.”

Interpol is on the hunt for two Russians which Montenegro’s government say are intelligence officers behind the plot. The Kremlin denied any involvement.

The Foreign Office said the Montenegrin inquiry pointed to the involvement of two Russians.