{"id":389121,"date":"2025-09-01T11:50:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T11:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/389121\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T11:50:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T11:50:16","slug":"eu-chief-von-der-leyens-plane-hit-by-suspected-russian-gps-interference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/389121\/","title":{"rendered":"EU chief von der Leyen&#8217;s plane hit by suspected Russian GPS interference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The navigation system of a plane carrying Ursula von der Leyen was disrupted due to suspected Russian interference, the European Commission said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">A spokesperson said the &#8220;GPS jamming&#8221; happened while the Commission president was about to arrive in Bulgaria on Sunday, but she still landed safely.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">They added: &#8220;We have received information from the Bulgarian authorities that they suspect that this was due to blatant interference by Russia.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The Financial Times, citing unnamed officials, reported that von der Leyen had to land at Plovdiv Airport using paper maps.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The Bulgarian government confirmed that during the flight, &#8220;the satellite signal transmitting information to the plane&#8217;s GPS navigation system was neutralised&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The statement continued: &#8220;To ensure the flight&#8217;s safety, air control services immediately offered an alternative landing method using terrestrial navigation tools.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Bulgaria&#8217;s Air Traffic Services Authority <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/3c330f87-71c4-4db9-8259-f5c132c1f0d3\" class=\"sc-f9178328-0 bGFWdi\" rel=\"noopener\">told the paper<\/a> that there had been a &#8220;notable increase&#8221; in navigation jamming since January 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The Kremlin told the FT that its information was &#8220;incorrect&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The navigation system of a plane carrying Ursula von der Leyen was disrupted due to suspected Russian interference,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":389122,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[2000,299,5187],"class_list":{"0":"post-389121","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-european"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115128895021171636","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}