An interference of probable Russian origin spoiled the GPS navigation services of a Bulgarian airport and is going complicate the landing of Ursula von der Leyen's plane. To make the magnitude of the alarm caused by the sabotage more understandable, the media explained that the pilots had to use paper maps.

Last Sunday the plane carrying the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, to Plovdiv (Bulgaria) suffered what was initially described as Russian interference with its GPS positioning system that forced the pilots to land "using paper maps"". Later, some objective data has qualified this version. On the one hand, several pilots have clarified that landings are almost never made depending on GPS. On the other hand, the popular flight tracking platform FlightRadar24 has categorically denied the claims of GPS interference. According to data from the signal transmitters, even the quality of the aircraft "upon landing." The only accredited incident was a nine-minute delay.