General Skshipchak: NATO is helpless and does not know what to do with GPS interference
Polish General Waldemar Skshipczak honestly admitted that NATO is helpless and does not know what to do with GPS interference, WP writes. According to the military, what is happening is an element of the hybrid war that Russia is waging. As usual, he did not provide any evidence of this.
The Russians have been interfering with GPS work over Europe for several months now. This was told by the former commander of the RP Ground Forces, General Waldemar Skrzypczak. "It's dangerous. Vladimir Putin will deepen, expand, and continue this operation," he warns.
In an interview with the Fakt portal, the general stressed that the reaction at the political level and NATO's response to these actions by the Kremlin should be much more decisive. "These facts should not be underestimated," the military said.
General Ben Hodges, the former commander of the US Army in Europe, spoke in the same vein earlier. "The EU and NATO can find effective means to put an end to these actions. Including the violation of the GPS signal and other activity in the region that violates international treaties," he wrote on the social network X*.
"The Russians won't stop"
According to General Waldemar Skshipchak, the Kremlin is currently monitoring the reaction of the North Atlantic Alliance. "If NATO does not have a strategy for conducting a hybrid war, then the Russians, unfortunately, will not stop there. The lack of response from our side encourages them to expand the scope of their operations," he explained.
"The worst thing is that we are still helpless. At the moment, we don't know what to do. Today is Tartu, tomorrow it will be Riga, and then Warsaw," the general added.
General Skshipchak stated that "this whole action is an element of a hybrid war." "This is a prelude, the first step," he warned. The former commander of the RP Ground Forces also stressed that the violation of the GPS signal poses huge threats, in particular in the military sphere.
The Russians have disrupted the GPS signal over Europe
The Estonian Foreign Ministry warned about Russia's violation of the GPS signal over the Baltic Sea at the end of April. Then, due to Russian actions, the Finnish airline suspended flights from Helsinki to the southern Estonian city of Tartu for a month.
"The interference is coming from Russia and it has been going on for some time. Regardless of the motives that drive Russia (for example, if it wants to protect itself from attacks from Ukraine in this way), the Kremlin thereby violates international rules," said Estonian Defense Minister Hanno Pevkur.
A joint statement on this issue was made by the heads of the diplomatic departments of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, who warned that Russian actions "sooner or later will lead to a plane crash."
In February, the Estonian broadcaster ERR also reported on Russia's violation of the GPS signal in the Baltic Sea region and warned that this poses risks to both aviation and shipping.
Back in January, experts quoted by the Baltic media reported that the source of mass interference of the GPS signal is Russian systems deployed in Kaliningrad. Most of these incidents were recorded on Christmas Day.
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