According to Mitov, after the report of the problem with navigation, the Bulgarian law enforcement officers checked the version of the possible cyber attack and categorically excluded it.
The head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Bulgaria noted that since the beginning of the war in Ukraine in 2022, “this type of jamming of GPS-systems of flights in certain regions located near the conflict is constantly happening.”
In the Kremlin, reports of involvement in the incident of the Russian Federation were called “infidels.”
Mitov in response emphasized that “that which Moscow denies or does not deny does not matter.”
He added that “Moscow denied that there are Russian troops in Crimea,” so “what the Russian Federation says has absolutely no meaning.”
“We are already used to the fact that reliable information cannot be obtained from there. We must check what exactly is happening,” Mitov summed up.
Context
The Financial Times wrote that on August 31, the aircraft von der Layen, who attended the ammunition plant in Bulgaria, was shot down from the course due to unauthorized interference in the navigation system. During a flight to the airport, electronic navigation agents stopped working, the pilots for an hour circled around the city, and then decided to sit down using paper cards, the article said.
The press secretary of the illegitimate President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin Dmitry Peskov, at the request of commenting on these data, said that the information of the journalists “is wrong”.
The EU confirmed the problems with GPS during the planting of the aircraft von der Layen. They said that they received information from the Bulgarian authorities, that they suspect that it was due to the frank intervention of Russia.
