Statistics from GPSJAM.org show that over 46,000 airplanes have reported issues when flying over the Baltic Sea since last August, with the majority of incidents happening close to Russia’s borders.

Lithuania’s Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis told the Financial Times: "If someone turns off your headlights while you’re driving at night, it gets dangerous. Things in the Baltic region near Russian borders are now getting too dangerous to ignore."

Two Finnair flights heading from Helsinki to the Estonian city of Tartu were forced to abort their journeys last week after reporting GPS jamming. Now, Estonia’s Foreign Minister, Margus Tsahkna, has rounded angrily 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.

Continuing, she added: “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, has also weighed in and said his country was taking the incidents “seriously”.

Of all the incidents to have occurred, the most high profile was the jamming of an RAF aircraft flying the UK’s Defence Minister Grant Shapps. Flying from Poland to Britain on March 13th, the plane’s GPS systems were jammed for approximately 30 minutes as the plane flew close to the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad.

A spokesperson for Britain’s Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, downplayed the incident saying it was “not unusual”. Similarly, the UK’s Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) have also stressed that flying remains a safe option. Speaking to the Guardian, Glenn Bradley of the CAA said: "Aviation is one of the safest forms of air travel, and there are several safety protocols in place to protect navigation systems on commercial aircraft."

He added: “GPS jamming does not directly impact the navigation of an aircraft, and while it is a known issue, this does not mean an aircraft has been jammed deliberately.”