Claims of ‘interference’ from Brussels, parotted by the Western press, are crashing back to Earth

A flurry of reports from EU officials and Western media claimed this week that Russia jammed the plane carrying European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen into Bulgaria. The tale of “hybrid warfare” in the skies made front-page news across an unquestioning mainstream press. But flight-tracking data shows something very different to what has been widely reported.

What Brussels claimed happened

On Sunday, von der Leyen traveled to Plovdiv as part of an Eastern Europe tour designed to harden Western backing for Kiev. Together with Bulgarian…

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