Posted on 09/24/2025 5:57:30 AM PDT by dennisw
The incident was likely the result of a 'blatant' Russian sabotage operation, Bulgarian authorities told the European Commission.
Read More Yvette Cooper warns Britain is 'ready to act' after Trump backs Nato shooting down Russian planes article image 'We can indeed confirm that there was GPS jamming, but the plane landed safely in Bulgaria,' European Commission spokeswoman Arianna Podesta said.
'We have received information from the Bulgarian authorities that they suspect that this was due to blatant interference by Russia.'
'The whole airport area GPS went dark,' an official brief on the incident told the Financial Times.
Russia is feared to have hit a Spanish Air Force plane with a GPS attack, after a flight carrying Spain's defence minister suffered an electronic 'disturbance'.
The attack happened this morning after the Spanish Airbus A330 carrying Margarita Robles flew over the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad on its way to Lithuania.
Robles was due to meet with her Lithuanian counterpart Dovile Sakaliene at the Siauliai airbase in the north of the country on Wednesday morning.
Several relatives of Spanish airmen serving in the new NATO air defence mission on the border with Russia were onboard with Robles.
The Spanish contingent, known as the Vilkas mission, from the Lithuanian word for wolf, last week intercepted eight Russian aircraft operating over the Baltic Sea.
It comes amid heightened tension with Russia, which has been accused of aggressively testing NATO's responses to threats.
Just a few weeks ago, Russia was suspected of jamming a jet carrying European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen to Bulgaria.
The plane carrying the EU chief was forced to land at Plovdiv, Bulgaria, using only paper maps, when a surprise interference attack suddenly disabled the GPS navigation system.
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How is this bad when one hostile attacks another hostile? The Spanish hate us more than the Russians.
How is this bad when one hostile attacks another hostile? The Spanish hate us more than the Russians.
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You have that right. The Brits are worse, just ask any Brit here what do you think of Trump? I asked a Costco employee with a Brit accent, he went off in a rage.
Last year we had to work with some Brit nationals , they did nothing but bash Trump. The fact is the EU is a bigger threat to the US than Russia is. The best we can hope for is the EU breaks up, the signs are there,
The plane from Spain was hit mainly near Ukraine.
GPS, escalators, teleprompters, helicopters, all have had issues of late . Must be the Fall Equinox .
I used to work for a UK based company.
The few times that any one of them mentioned Trump, it was polite but condescending.
I don’t miss working there.
For many years it was a good place to work.
Spain didn’t want to spend the 5%. Let them defend themselves.
LoL good one.
Oh, you go sit in the corner. ;-D
I have never met anyone from Western Europe who has anything good to say about any Republican, not just Trump. This attitude goes back at least the 80s when I was in high school.
Eastern Europeans are different in this regard, probably from having lived under Communism.
Spain and the EU better start spending more money on their defensive capabilities because it is past time we cutoff all taxpayer funding for national security of any other EU or NATO nation.
would taking tylenol also help you learn how to post images properly?
I was stationed in England 1973-75. Hanging at the pubs, the locals would harass us about Nam as if we some say in the issue. I’d bring up Northern Ireland and leave them arguing amongst themselves.
For a zeeper, the headline - and the more emotional the better - the more zeepers love the article!
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