Russia Is Suspected Of Jamming Radar Of EU Leader’s Plane, Official Says

Sofia, Bulgaria (AP) – carrying a plane European Commission President Ursula von der leyen One spokesman said on Monday that GPS was shot in a suspicious Russian operation with the compression of Bulgaria.

Commission spokesman Arianna Podestà said that the aircraft descended safely to Plovdiv Airport and that Von Der Luyen will continue to plan the east countries of the European Union.

“We can verify that there is really GPS jam, Pod Podestà said. “We received the information from the Bulgarian authority that this was due to Russia’s open intervention.”

Von der leyen’s plane is a series of Russian electronic intervention in the GPS satellite navigation. For months, countries that limit Russia, including Finland, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, warned the increase in electronic activities that intervene in flights, ships and drones. Russian authorities did not respond immediately to the requests for comments.

A violent critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Von Der Luyen and Moscow’s war in Ukraine, Lithuania, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Poland, Romania and Bulgaria visited most of the EU’s eastern wing on a four -day tour.

“This event underlines the urgency of the mission of the president in the front member states of the President, Pod said Podestà.

Von Der Leyen said that “he saw the daily difficulties of threats from Russia and his deputies.

“And of course, the EU will continue to invest in defense expenditures after this incident and to invest in Europe,” he said.

A special jet rented by the European Commission to Plovdiv, the second largest city of Bulgaria from Bulgaria, Warsaw, Poland, made a statement stating that the aircraft is broken for the GPS navigation of the aircraft ”. “As the plane approached Plovdiv airport, the GPS signal disappeared,” he said. He said that Bulgaria’s civil aviation authority instructed the pilots to use spare navigation assistants to download the plane.

Associated Press drew about 80 events A map following a deterioration campaign throughout Europe blamed Russia, Western authorities are surprisingly described as “reckless .. Since Moscow’s full -scale Ukraine invasion in 2022, Western authorities blamed Russia and its deputies dozens of attacks and other eventsHe attempted to assassinate from vandalism to arson.

It contains intervention, jumping and fraud from Russia. The compression overwhelms the communication of a powerful radio signal, whereas it is misleading to think that a recipient is in a different place or in a period of past or future.

In August, Latvia’s Electronic Communication Office said it set at least three hot points to stuck through Russia throughout the borders. Temporary Finnish Airline in April 2024 Flights suspended to the city of Estonia Tartu Following the jam, in March of that year, Squeezed the satellite signal of a plane carrying the British defense secretary Flying near Russian territory.

The office said that despite Russia protecting that the stuck is defensive, the frequency increased as parasites increased further than Russia borders.

Pilots and air traffic controllers from Sweden to Bulgaria, Utrecht, an analyst and CEO of Dutch -based Dyami security intelligence, said Eric Shouten, “They are rediscovering the stroller methods at the old school because they cannot trust the GPS anymore,” he said. He said that Russia is not likely to target Von Der Leyen.

“Russia knew it would come, Shouten said. “They can open the button a little to be a irritating neighbor.”

– McNEIL reported from Brussels. Zeke Miller Burrows at the Emma Burrows and Washington DC in London contributed to this report.