Spanish defence minister's plane hit by GPS 'disturbance' over Russian enclave

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Spanish defence minister's plane hit by GPS 'disturbance' over Russian enclave  Spain's Defence Minister Margarita Robles was on the military jet, which reported GPS interference while flying over the Russian Kaliningrad enclave.  READ MORE : http://www.euronews.com/2025/09/24/spanish-defence-ministers-plane-hit-by-gps-disturbance-near-russian-enclave  Subscribe to our channel. Euronews is available on Dailymotion in 12 languages

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00:00Spain says a military jet carrying Defense Minister Margarita Rubles suffered a GPS

00:06disturbance whilst flying over Russia's Kalingrad enclave.

00:12Her Airbus A330 was en route to Lithuania as part of a NATO policing mission.

00:18Relatives of Spanish troops and journalists were also on board.

00:23Rubles later said such incidents would not weaken Spain's commitment to NATO.

00:28Russia has to know that we are not going to leave Ukraine alone, that we are going to continue

00:34all the time with Ukraine and that we reivindicate the right of all countries to live and to move

00:40freely without accepting Putin's threats.

00:45This year, dozens of cases of GPS jamming in the Baltic states have been blamed on Russia.

00:51European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen faced a similar incident whilst flying over

00:55Bulgaria in what the Commission said was a suspected Russian operation.

01:00Both planes were ultimately able to land safely.

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