Bulgaria flip-flops on von der Leyen plane’s GPS glitch
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The Bulgarian government on Thursday flip-flopped on allegations that Russia jammed GPS signals to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s plane — and then flip-flopped again.
It is leaving officials in Brussels in a bind as to what really happened.
On Thursday morning, Bulgarian Prime Minister Rosen Zhelyazkov told parliament that the Commission president’s plane had not been disrupted but had only experienced a partial signal interruption, the kind typically seen in densely populated areas.
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