00:00NATO is working to counter Russia's jamming of civilian flights, the Alliance's chief Mark Rutte announced on Tuesday.
00:08It comes two days after a plane carrying European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen lost its ability to use GPS navigation mid-air and Bulgarian airspace.
00:19Rutte said that jamming was part of a complex campaign by Russia of hybrid threats.
00:24I always hated the word hybrid because it sounds so cuddly, but hybrid is exactly this, jamming commercial airplanes with potentially disastrous effects,
00:35an assassination attempt on a big industrialist in one of NATO allied countries, attacking the National Health Service in the United Kingdom.
00:45So these are not cuddly, small incidents, these are huge incidents which have a huge impact.
00:51He added that the whole continent is under direct threat from Russia.
00:57And the latest Russian missile technology, for example, the difference now between Lithuania on the front line and Luxembourg, The Hague or Madrid is five to ten minutes.
01:09That's the time it takes this missile to reach these parts of Europe.
01:12So we are all under direct threat from the Russians.
01:15We are all on the eastern flank now, whether you live in London or in Tallinn, there is no difference anymore.
01:23Since Moscow's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Western officials have accused Russia and its proxies of staging dozens of hybrid warfare attacks.
01:32So we are already on this.
