NEWS WEEK
Thousands of commercial airline flights in Europe have reportedly had their GPS data jammed, as Russia is suspected of waging the electronic attacks amid its ongoing war in Ukraine, according to British media reports.
Almost 3,800 flights originating from or arriving in the U.K. have had their GPS signals obstructed since August, with tens of thousands more flights that passed over the Baltic Sea enduring the same fate around the same period, according to a report published on Monday by The Guardian.
The Baltic Sea, which some have dubbed “NATO Lake” due to Finland and Sweden recently joining the alliance, has been a hotbed of regional tension during the Ukraine war. With the exception of the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, every nation with a Baltic coastline is now a NATO member.
British tabloid The Sun reported that analysis from the website GPSJAM.org shows approximately 46,000 flights experienced issues with their navigational data over the Baltic from August through March, although it was unclear what role, if any, Russia may have played.
