Russia suspected of jamming GPS on plane carrying Ursula von der Leyen | Ursula von der Leyen
It is believed that a plane carrying the European Commission President Ursula von Der Leyen through Bulgaria is believed to squeeze the satellite signal and are reported to be reported.
Von der leyen was traveling to Plovdiv on Sunday, when the Charter aircraft lost electronic navigation aids, and delayed his arrival to the city of Bulgarian.
Commission spokesman Arianna Podestà confirmed that the incident took place. “We received information from the Bulgarian authorities that this was due to Russia’s open intervention.
The intervention in the satellite navigation has become increasingly widespread in the airspace near Russia, and von der Lenin remains unclear whether it was deliberately targeted. When asked about this, Podestà said: “The question is the best Russians.”
Event first notified By the Financial Times, who said that Von der leyen’s plane took the Plovdiv airport into the apartment for an hour before he was forced to land by using “analog maps”. The Commission did not approve of these details immediately.
The incident occurred by von der leyen during a four -day trip to the seven EU member states on the eastern border of Bloc. On Monday, he did not mention the von in Vilnius, but he mentioned “constant military and hybrid threats ğı that Lithuania faced.
Last month, he talked about the two drones that crossed the Belarus border of Lithuania last month and said: “Lithuania is being tested and Europe is tested as a whole.”
Commission spokesman, the incident “only strengthened, said the incident[s] Our unshakable commitment to increase our further defense capabilities and the support we provide to Ukraine ”.
In March 2024, Russia was believed to be responsible for compressing the signal of a plane carrying the British Defense Secretary Grant Shapps, which returned from Poland to England. The shelf aircraft experienced GPS intervention for about 30 minutes as Russian approached Kaliningrad. It was reported that the Shapps was uncertain at that time.
The GPS jam and the “fraud”-an electronic war tactic, which led to the display of an wrong navigation information, the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and increased more sharply last year.
In June, 13 EU member states increased the alarm on the stuck and fraud of threats that disrupt air and sea travel. Poland recorded 2,732 electronic intervention cases in October 2023 in January 2025, Lithuania recorded 1.185 out of 556 in March 2024. Internal EU Certificate Prepared in May.
The document describes the intervention in global satellite navigation systems as a systemic, deliberate action by Russia and Belarus, not a random event ”. He added that it is simple and cheap to cause significant damage ”and will probably continue without“ proportional measures ”.
In a statement on Monday, the Commission said that some companies in the GPS signal deduction imposed sanctions in a very clear case arising from Russia ”. He also said that he has developed wider strategies to prevent aviation -specific plan and stuck.
Ukrainian police accused Russia with the participation of the murder of a former parliament speaker and a pro -Western politician at the weekend.
Andriy Parubi, an important figure in the anti -Russian movement of Ukraine, was shot and killed by a man dressed in the Western city of Lviv on Saturday. “We know that this crime is not accidental. The Russians have participation. Everyone will be held responsible before the law,” he said.
He said that the suspect had hidden himself as a courier and opened fire on Parubi in the light of day and fired his gun eight times. Vyhivskyi made sure that the shooter was dead. “It took a long time to prepare, monitor, plan, plan, and finally pulling the trigger. It took only 36 hours to follow and arrest it.”
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that “terrible murder” affects safety security in a war in war ”.
After the summit between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump last month, the ceasefire hopes are low. A deadline for action by the US President to act by the Russian leader to end the war or to take action to encounter new sanctions will end this week, although Trump has a delay history of delay.
On Friday, French President Emmanuel Macron said Putin was trying to “play” Trump.
Von Der Leyen said Ukraine’s allies are working on security guarantees. He described his first line of defense as a “strong, well -equipped and experienced Ukrainian army and the second” a multinational group of the Americans Returning Coalition “.
Approximately 30 countries, known as the willing coalition, promised support to Ukraine, but it remains unclear how many European countries will send troops or how these forces can be deployed. The US expects European countries to make heavy lifting, but can provide logistics support.
Zelenskyy is expected to meet European leaders in Paris on Thursday as part of Russia’s attempt to end the invasion of three and a half years.
