Interference with the GPS signal can cause an aviation disaster, the Baltic countries warn

The Baltic countries have warned that jamming of the GPS signal, blamed on Russia, could cause an air disaster. It was written by the British newspaper Financial Times (FT). According to him, the foreign ministers of Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia separately warned at the weekend about the risks associated with the interference of the satellite navigation system in the Baltic Sea region, when two planes headed from Finland to Estonia had to return.

GPS jamming has intensified in the Baltic Sea region in recent weeks, according to the FT. On Thursday and Friday, two Finnair planes headed from Helsinki to Tartu, Estonia, returned to Finland because of him. “When someone turns off your headlights while you’re driving at night, it’s dangerous. The situation in the Baltics near the Russian border is becoming too dangerous to ignore,” said the head of Lithuanian diplomacy, Gabrielius Landsbergis.

“We consider what is happening with GPS to be part of Russia’s hostile activities, and we will definitely talk about it with our allies. Such actions are a hybrid attack and pose a threat to our people and security. We will not tolerate them,” said his Estonian counterpart Margus Tsahkna. Latvian Foreign Minister Baiba Braže made a similar statement, saying that Riga takes such incidents seriously and is in contact with other countries because of them.

According to experts, tens of thousands of civilian flights have been affected by GPS jamming in recent months. It also disrupted navigation signals used by vessels in the Baltic Sea, prompting a warning from the Swedish Navy about shipping safety, the FT writes.

According to him, Baltic officials are convinced that Russia is behind the jamming of navigation signals in the region. And that both from its mainland and from the Kaliningrad region, which is wedged between Poland and Lithuania. The newspaper draws attention to the statement of an unnamed official, according to which one of the theories mentions the possibility that Russia is trying to protect Kaliningrad from potential attacks by Ukrainian drones.