ICAO Condemns Russia and North Korea for GPS Jamming Violations

The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) has strongly condemned Russia and North Korea for systematically jamming GPS signals, which poses a threat to the safety of international flights and violates international aviation law.

The Gaze reports this, referring to Aerotime.

At the conclusion of its three-year assembly in Montreal on October 5, 2025, ICAO adopted two resolutions that officially confirmed that Russia and North Korea's actions to interfere with the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) violate the 1944 Chicago Convention — the main document regulating international civil aviation.

The organization called on both states to immediately cease jamming and comply with their international obligations to ensure the safe and unimpeded functioning of aviation navigation.

“Incidents of GNSS RFI have continued to recur in disregard of the concerns repeatedly expressed by the ICAO Council,” the organization said.

Such actions, as noted in the statement, not only endanger the lives of passengers and crews, but also undermine confidence in the global air navigation system, which is a key element of international flight safety.

ICAO has no enforcement mechanisms, and public censure is one of the most decisive uses of diplomatic pressure in the agency's history.

The resolution specifically singled out Russia for its role in destabilizing navigation in European airspace. In recent years, countries in the Baltic Sea region and Eastern Europe have reported unexplained signal disruptions. 

Estonia and Finland, among others, have publicly accused Russia of jamming civilian navigation systems in their airspace — accusations that Moscow denies.

Earlier, a plane carrying European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen experienced GPS malfunctions near Plovdiv, Bulgaria. This incident has heightened concerns about the scale of such electronic operations.

Moreover, the Head of the British Space Force, General Paul Tedman, has publicly stated for the first time that Russia regularly interferes with British military satellites. According to him, weekly attempts to jam signals have been recorded, indicating a deliberate and systematic campaign of interference in British space communications.

As The Gaze previously informed, the Baltic states have sounded the alarm over a surge in electronic warfare activity, accusing Russia of dramatically intensifying radio and satellite interference along NATO’s eastern flank.