{"id":392158,"date":"2025-09-02T15:02:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T15:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/392158\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T15:02:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T15:02:14","slug":"russia-suspected-of-interfering-with-plane-of-e-u-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/392158\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia Suspected of Interfering With Plane of E.U. President"},"content":{"rendered":"

NATO is working \u201cday and night\u201d to counter Russian GPS jamming, the organization’s Secretary-General Mark Rutte<\/a> confirmed on Tuesday, two days after a plane carrying European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen<\/a> encountered interference.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is taken very seriously,\u201d said<\/a> Rutte during a press conference in Luxembourg. \u201cI can assure you that we are working day and night to counter this, to prevent it, and to make sure that they will not do it again.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rutte went on to say that NATO is \u201cstepping up\u201d when it comes to dealing with \u201chybrid, cyber\u201d matters and have \u201cagreed on policies\u201d to address the mounting concern. The NATO chief admitted that instances of GPS jamming could have \u201cpotentially disastrous effects,\u201d making the issue all the more urgent.<\/p>\n

A plane boarded by von der Leyen<\/a> on Sunday encountered suspected Russian interference while trying to land in Bulgaria, a spokesperson for the Commission told TIME.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have received information from Bulgarian authorities that they suspect this blatant interference was carried out by Russia. We are well aware that threats and intimidation are a regular component of Russia\u2019s hostile actions,\u201d said European Commission Deputy Chief Spokesperson Arianna Podest\u00e0 in an emailed statement on Monday, reiterating that the plane landed safely, despite the GPS jamming.<\/p>\n

Per Podest\u00e0, the event will only serve to \u201cfurther reinforce\u201d the European Commission\u2019s \u201cunshakable commitment to ramp up [its] defence capabilities and support for Ukraine.\u201d<\/p>\n

Continuing her tour of frontline member states on Monday, von der Leyen visited Lithuania, which borders Russia, and announced an economic roadmap for the next five years is due to be outlined in October to address defence investment regarding the war in Ukraine and Russian threats towards other neighbouring countries.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou live under geopolitical and economic pressure, as well as constant military and hybrid threats,\u201d said von der Leyen<\/a> in a joint press conference with Lithuanian President Gitanas Naus\u0117da.<\/p>\n

\"NATOMark Rutte, NATO’s Secretary General, and Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, are seen during the NATO Summit at the World Forum in The Hague, the Netherlands, on June 23, 2025. Klaudia Radecka\u2014Getty Images<\/p>\n

In July, the European Commission announced sanctions against Russian individuals and entities accused of these \u201chybrid threats,\u201d including one Russian company and two individuals in relation to signal jamming from Kaliningrad, a Russian exclave.<\/p>\n

\u201cGNSS signal disruptions in several European countries have been linked to electronic warfare activities from Kaliningrad, including jamming and spoofing of GNSS signals, primarily affecting the Baltic States, and disrupting civil aviation,\u201d read the press release<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Read More:<\/strong> How Putin Brushed Off Trump\u2019s Latest Push for Peace in Ukraine<\/a><\/p>\n

The latest allegations of Russian interference in GPS systems comes almost three weeks after U.S. President Donald Trump met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska for a \u201chigh-stakes<\/a>\u201d summit.<\/p>\n

The meeting served as the first in-person encounter between the Presidents since 2019<\/a>, and was intended to foster discussions about a path toward a potential cease-fire. But it ended earlier than expected and, notably, without a deal being reached.<\/p>\n

Trump has since met with Zelensky and key European leaders at the White House to discuss possible steps forward, during which he ruled out sending U.S. troops to Ukraine as part of security guarantees.<\/p>\n

The U.S. President has pitched for a one-on-one meeting between Zelensky and Putin. But a Kremlin aide said on Monday that a concrete agreement for a one-on-one, or a trilateral meeting including Trump, has not been agreed upon, reaffirming<\/a> Russia\u2019s stance since Putin met with Trump.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo far, what is being broadcast in the press is not exactly what we\u2019ve agreed on. Now they are talking about a trilateral meeting, about a meeting between Putin and Zelensky. But specifically, as far as I know, there has been no agreement between Putin and Trump on this,\u201d presidential aide Yuri Ushakov<\/a> is quoted as telling Russian media outlet VGTRK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NATO is working \u201cday and night\u201d to counter Russian GPS jamming, the organization’s Secretary-General Mark Rutte confirmed on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":392159,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7655],"tags":[28423,332],"class_list":{"0":"post-392158","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-russia","8":"tag-news-desk","9":"tag-russia"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115135312435246000","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392158","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=392158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}