00:00Assessing claims about alleged Russian GPS interference targeting von der Leyen's plane
00:04Reports that European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen's plane was targeted by Russian GPS jamming
00:13as she travelled to the Bulgarian city of Plovdiv on 31st August have sparked major speculation.
00:20The Financial Times first broke the story on 1st September,
00:23reporting that von der Leyen's plane circled Plovdiv airport for an hour using paper maps to land.
00:29We have received information from the Bulgarian authorities that they suspect that this was due to blatant interference by Russia.
00:41But days later, on 4th September, Bulgaria's Deputy Prime Minister Gorzhan Karazhov
00:46denied that the government had submitted any information about Russian interference to the European Commission.
00:52In an apparent attempt to backpedal on those initial claims,
00:55the country's Prime Minister, Rosen Zeliazkov, said there was no evidence of prolonged interference
01:01or jamming of the GPS signal around Plovdiv airport.
01:04The Prime Minister later said that although no jamming had been detected by ground instruments,
01:09this didn't exclude the possibility of onboard devices detecting jamming.
01:13Analysts from Flightradar24 told Euroverify that according to their data,
01:17the aircraft maintained a good GPS signal throughout the flight.
01:21Their data also contradicted the Financial Times' assertion that the aircraft circled Plovdiv for an hour,
01:28as flight records reveal that the aircraft landed only a few minutes late.
01:32Although there are a plethora of doubts surrounding this incident,
01:36Moscow has intensified GPS jamming targeting planes and ships
01:39since it launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022,
01:44primarily targeting the area surrounding the Baltic Sea.
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