Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov dismissed EU accusations that Russia conducted a GPS “attack” on the plane carrying European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen during her Bulgaria visit as utter nonsense.

“Recently, we were accused of nearly killing Ursula von der Leyen, who was flying to various nations by plane or helicopter to turn them against us. Suddenly, they claimed Russia ‘turned off’ the GPS, risking a crash. Later, EU representatives themselves retracted this absurdity,” Lavrov stated at a press conference.

He highlighted this as part of Western disinformation tactics against Russia, where “the methods remain the same.” Earlier, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova called the claims—alleging von der Leyen’s plane landed using paper maps due to a Kremlin “hybrid attack”—a sign of “despair.”

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