"If someone turns off your headlights while you’re driving at night, it gets dangerous," he said, adding: "Things in the Baltic region near Russian borders are now getting too dangerous to ignore."On April 25 and 26, two Finnair flights from Helsinki to the Estonian city of Tartu experienced GPS jamming and turned around mid-flight.Estonia’s Foreign Minister, Margus Tsahkna, laid the blame firmly on Russia."We consider what is happening with GPS as part of Russia’s hostile activities, and we will definitely discuss it with our allies," she said."Such actions are a hybrid attack and are a threat to our people and security, and we will not tolerate them."Latvia's Foreign Minister, Baiba Braze, said his country was taking the incidents "seriously" and was in touch with international partners over the issue.The NATO and Lithuanian flags fly over the summit venue on July 09, 2023 in Vilnius, Lithuania.

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