Russia ramps up GPS jamming with airliners at risk in European sabotage campaign

Dr Thomas Withington, associate fellow in electronic warfare and air defence at the Royal United Services Institute, said jamming in the Baltics was believed to have been carried out by systems known as Tobol-M, which can interfere with GPS and other systems across a large area. “The ostensible reason [for the jamming] is to protect large Russian targets and assets in the Baltic and Nordic region,” he told i. “So that’s principally in Kaliningrad, and then also assets in what’s now known as the Leningrad military district [the north-west corner of Russia, bordering Finland].”