Rome, January 19, 2024 – Russia could be behind lead to GPS system failures happened in Poland and Sweden between December and January. According to the American think tank Etc The cause could be Moscow's electronic warfare exercises in the enclave Kaliningrad.
The most recent report of disruptions in the navigation system came from Poland January 16th and localized in the northern and eastern areas of the country, also affected Warsaw and Łódź, written by the Polish agency Pap. Further reports were received from December 25th to 27th to January 10th.
Disturbances were also recorded in the southern part of the Baltic Sea. But not everyone is pointing the finger at Russia; in fact, according to Polish analysts, the December cases could be there Consequence of unspecified exercises by NATO forces in the Baltic Seaor at the same time of Moscow troops in the Kaliningrad region, and in both cases the GPS failures were communications jamming carried out to cover military exercises from the “enemy”.
But other cases have also been observed in Sweden on January 12th: the military intelligence and security service in Stockholm, A must, probably caused by the Russian Baltic Sea Fleet. Confirmation of the Polish and Swedish theses are the Russian media articles about fleet tests in the Kalinigrand region since mid-December. Exercises covered with the interference system of automated communication Borisoglebsk-2, which would have disrupted the satellite systems in Poland and Sweden.