Finnish Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen, in an interview with Yle, accused Russia of GPS failures. At the end of April, the foreign ministers of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania spoke about this.
“I will not name specific dates, but it is obvious that the scale of interference in GPS work [over the Baltic] has increased since the beginning of Russian military aggression [in Ukraine] and took new forms,” Valtonen said.
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According to the head of the Finnish Foreign Ministry, it is unknown how intentional the interference was on the part of Russia and whether it was related to the protection of its own critical infrastructure, in including from drones.
“But we will not tolerate it if it interferes with our work in our countries,” she added.
Finnair pilots have reported unusual GPS interference on flights , the route of which ran past the Kaliningrad region, back in March 2022. At the beginning of 2024, a powerful glitch in GPS operation occurred in the Finnish regions bordering Russia. In April 2024, two Finnair overnight flights failed to land at Tartu Airport in Estonia, and the airline suspended flights to this route.