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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Mabel Banfield-Nwachi

Russia suspected of jamming GPS signal on aircraft carrying Grant Shapps

Polish deputy prime minister and minister of national defense Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz (l), Grant Shapps (c) and 1st deputy commander general of the armed forces Marek Sokolowski at the Orzysz training ground in north-east Poland
Polish deputy prime minister and minister of national defence Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz (l), Grant Shapps (c) and 1st deputy commander general of the armed forces Marek Sokolowski at the Orzysz training ground in north-east Poland on 13 March. Photograph: Tomasz Waszczuk/EPA

Russia is believed to have jammed the satellite signal on an RAF aircraft carrying Grant Shapps back from Poland, according to government sources.

Defence sources said there was no danger to Shapps, who was travelling back to the UK, though they called it a “wildly irresponsible” act of electronic warfare.

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