– We take this very seriously," said Mark Rutte at a press conference in Luxembourg and declared that NATO had taken intensive action to counter the jamming of the GPS system.
– We work day and night to prevent specified actions and guarantee that they do not happen again," added Rutte. Let us remind you that the case concerns Ursula con der Leyen.
NATO working on the problem
The head of the EC has late visited 7 countries bordering Russia and Belarus. The intent of the visits was to discuss actions to improve defence readiness in consequence to Russia's war against Ukraine.
On Sunday, August 31, von der Leyen was in Poland. After gathering Donald Tuski, she took a plane to Bulgaria. During the cruise, however, pilots encountered a problem. They lost the ability to usage GPS systems. After an hr of orbiting the airport, they made a extremist decision. "They had to approach the landing utilizing paper maps," reported the Financial Times portal. As added, GPS stopped operating throughout the airport.
In an interview with the portal, 3 EU officials considered the Sunday event to be "an undeniable act of Russian interference". In the end, the visit of the EC chief in Bulgaria was as planned and Ursula von der Leyen left Plovdiv on the same aircraft – no possibly dangerous events occurred at the time.
