NATO is working day and night to prevent jamming of the GPS system, Secretary General of the Alliance Mark Rutte said on Tuesday. He was referring to the disruption of the GPS system on the plane carrying European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Sunday.
GPS Jamming
During a visit to Luxembourg, Rutte said that NATO takes GPS signal jamming very seriously and is working “day and night” to prevent such actions and to ensure that “they do not happen again.”
Russia Suspected
On Monday, the European Commission (EC) announced that the GPS system of the plane that carried von der Leyen from Warsaw to Bulgaria the previous day had been disrupted. The EC received information from Bulgarian authorities that Russia is suspected of being behind the jamming.
On Sunday afternoon, von der Leyen traveled to Bulgaria to meet with Prime Minister Rosen Zhelyazkov and to visit an ammunition factory. Between Friday and Sunday, the head of the EC visited a total of seven countries bordering Russia and Belarus. The purpose of her visits included discussing measures to improve defense readiness in response to Russia’s war against Ukraine.
On Sunday, the head of the Commission went to the Polish-Belarusian border together with Prime Minister Donald Tusk.