Lithuania’s FM: Russian GPS jamming of commercial flights 'too dangerous to ignore'

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Lithuania’s FM: Russian GPS jamming of commercial flights 'too dangerous to ignore'

Suspected Russian jamming of GPS systems aboard commercial flights is "too dangerous to ignore," Baltic foreign ministers have warned, after it was revealed two Finnish aircraft were forced to turn around mid-journey in recent days.Russia has been accused of jamming GPS signals in nearby countries such as Finland as far back as the 2010s, but incidents have sky-rocketed in recent months, particularly over the Baltic Sea.According to a report by …