The Finnish side was unable to provide information that the source of interference in the operation of the global navigation system GPS in the north of the country was in Russia. This is stated in a statement by the Russian Embassy in Finland, released on Monday, November 19. Earlier today, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Finland expressed its concern to the Russian ambassador to Helsinki, Pavel Kuznetsov, because of the interference with GPS during the NATO Trident Juncture exercise and the threat to aircraft security, including civil aviation.. "On the Russian side, it was stressed that flight safety is just as important for Russia as it is for Finland. At the same time, it was noted that no information was provided to us, that the source of interference was allegedly located in Russia. In this regard, we believe that for professional consideration of this kind of situations, a substantive dialogue is demanded at the expert level through the relevant services of the countries of the region, "the message posted on the Russian diplomatic mission website says. It is noted that in Helsinki agreed with the desirability to consider the issue of improving the efficiency of the interdepartmental exchange of information about the navigation situation of civil aviation flights and the rapid response to its possible changes. Recall, on November 15, the Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated that the interference with the GPS operation in the north of the Republic during NATO exercises allegedly came from Russia. The maneuvers of the Trident Juncture Alliance ("United? Trident") with the participation of about 50 thousand military from 30 countries, including the Finns, were held from October 25 to November 7. On November 13, the Norwegian Ministry of Defense accused Moscow of interfering with GPS work during an exercise. Two days later, the Finnish Foreign Ministry announced that it trusts the data from the Norwegian side..

In turn, presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov noted that “now there is a tendency to accuse Russia of all mortal and other sins,” however, as a rule, “these accusations are not groundless”. Probably the apotheosis of those exercises was a disaster with the newest Norwegian frigate Helge Instad, which because of problems with the GPS collided with the Greek oil tanker Sola early in the morning of November 8 in the port of Bergen, having received a huge hole.

The warship eventually sank, and the Norwegians immediately began blaming Moscow for everything.