GPS jamming and spoofing affecting flights over the Baltic and Black Sea regions, 2023
Reportedon one origin only: 1 distinct origin, 1 tied to no party.
The dataset records GPS jamming and spoofing over the Baltic Sea and near the Black Sea affecting civil aviation, which the Guardian reported as suspected Russian jamming. It codes the incident as disruption, apparent goal disrupt (civil) aviation, target civil aviation, location Baltic Sea, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Bulgaria; the dataset records it as running from August 2023 to 2023-12-31, and the date shown is the start of that period. The Leiden dataset includes incidents linked to Russia by officials, incidents fitting a pattern of officially suspected attacks, or incidents backed by journalistic evidence, and its authors call the data speculative and subject to change.
- When
- 1 August 2023
- Where
- Baltic Sea, No single country
- What
- gps interference
- Acting party
- Government of Russia
- Attribution
- Attributed by independent sources. Listed as a Russian operation in the Leiden University Russian Operations Against Europe dataset; the dataset and the source it cites link the incident to Russia.
- In the record
- Published 2026-10-27 21:03 UTC · revision 1 · leiden
Sources
- Evidence Leiden University, Russian Operations Against Europe dataset
- Evidence The Guardian
History
| When | Field | From | To | Why |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-27 21:03 UTC | status | null | reported | P1 leiden: researched from cited sources and graded by the one rule |
Cite or reuse
The War Record, "GPS jamming and spoofing affecting flights over the Baltic and Black Sea regions, 2023", ev-20261027-61gb, revision 1, https://thewarrecord.com/events/ev-20261027-61gb/