The failures coincide with the theoretical range of action of Russian electronic warfare systems located in the Kaliningrad region.
The GPS signal disappeared over part of Poland and Russia may be behind these disruptions in the Baltic Sea region.
The disappearance of the signal was reported by the Polish website Epoznan.
The outage map available on gpsjam.org shows that on January 17, there were GPS signal outages across much of Poland. The city of Poznan was partially included in the GPS blackout zone. At the same time, in the area of the cities of Pyla and Konov, the signal was completely absent.
This is not the first such incident in recent days. Similar problems were recorded in Finland and Estonia.
The head of the gpsjam.org website, John Wiseman, said that this could be a deliberate attempt to jam the GPS signal or a military exercise.
The Cyberdefence24.pl website reports that failures coincide with the theoretical range Russian electronic warfare systems located in the Kaliningrad region.
Although there is no official information on the causes of GPS failures yet, experts suspect that Russia may be behind system failures in the Baltic Sea region, reports a Polish website Radio Eska.
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“We have previously made such comments in connection with Russian military exercises. I believe that this is an example of hybrid actions aimed at creating uncertainty,” said the head of the Swedish Military Intelligence and Security Service Thomas Nilsson. < /p>
Lieutenant Colonel Joakim Paasikivi, a lecturer in military strategy at the Swedish Defense University, agreed with this opinion. He said the glitches could be “a test of sorts” before Russia uses them in a “gray zone” or hybrid war.
“This could be the start of a nasty escalation. If the satellites were destroyed, it would affect a large part of the IT systems and the economy,” Paasikivi warned.
Recall that the day before, Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas suggested that it was Russia that was behind the recent wave of failures in GPS navigation in the southern part of the Baltic Sea. However, according to Kallas, this did not appear to be intentionally aimed at NATO members.
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