Russia Moving Electronic Warfare Systems Closer to NATO Borders, Estonia Says

The Estonian government has stated that Russia has strengthened its electronic warfare systems near the Estonian border.

The Gaze reports on it, referring to Bloomberg.

Estonian Interior Minister Igor Taro said at a press conference in Tallinn that the Russian army had delivered additional equipment for jamming radio signals to the area of Kingisepp, a town located about 20 kilometres from the Estonian border.

Such equipment was used on the battlefield in Ukraine to disrupt the navigation signals of unmanned aerial vehicles.

However, electronic warfare equipment also causes serious interference with the global positioning system (GPS) used by commercial aircraft and ships.

Earlier, Estonia warned of increased GPS interference in the Narva area and the coast of Narva Bay.

Lithuanian Deputy Defence Minister Karolis Aleksa also said that the scale of GPS signals blocked by Russia is expanding.

And on 17 June, Polish Defence Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz said that his country was recording GPS disruptions over the Baltic Sea, which were linked to Russia's actions.

As The Gaze reported earlier, Estonia is pressing ahead with the development of an autonomous robotic vessel designed to patrol its eastern waterways along the Russian border, marking a new step in the country's use of AI for national security amid rising hybrid threats.