“Dancing at the sea” or fun in the “District Circle” – such a “movement” of units can be seen in the photos available by Radio Yle from the Marinetraffic website.
According to the deputy commander of the Coast Guard of the Finnish Bay Iljina, similar activities began last year. It is about disturbing and harassment, but the services are following the situation and for now no other actions are needed except for standard supervision The officer said in an interview with Yle.
Difficulties for ships
This is a problem for other ships because You can no longer trust electronic devices, As before, and you should go to traditional navigation – admitted the head of the department at the Finnish transport agency Aleksi Uttula.
According to Martti Lehto from the Faculty of Information Technology at the University of Jyvaskla, The purpose of disturbing data regarding the location of the ships may be to try to check whether there are real ships or false on the map to create uncertainty about the actual situation at sea. – This may be related to sanctions against the Russian “shadow fleet”, and Russia is trying to hide the fact of using such units – He admitted.
If the recipient's country wants to hide that the raw material comes from Russia, the device of the automatic communication system (AIS) in sea transport is intentionally turned off, so that location data can be falsified.
The number of applications is growing
The Finnish authorities had previously reported that the disruptions in the reception of GPS signal and navigation in the Gulf of Finnish intensified in the autumn of 2024, and the number of reported cases by both national and foreign ship operators is many times greater than in previous years and measured in thousands per year.
According to the services, Russia interferes with satellite navigation signal to protect its infrastructure in the eastern part of the bay against the attacks of Ukrainian drones. It was also pointed out that Russia has systems and bases to wage an electronic war located in the Gulf of Finnish, including in the St. Petersburg region and in the southern Baltic part in the Królewiec region. He also uses his own GLONASS satellite navigation system.
