Russia has denied it was behind the failure of the GPS navigation system onboard European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen's plane as it tried to land at an airport in Bulgaria .

"Your information is incorrect," Kremlin spokesperson, Dmitry Peskov, told British newspaper The Financial Times on Monday in a statement also widely carried by Russian state media.

Arianna Podesta, deputy chief spokesperson for the European Commission, told Newsweek the aircraft carrying the chief of the European Union's executive arm had experienced GPS jamming "but the plane landed safe."

The plane was forced to land at Bulgaria's Plovdiv Airport, southeast of the capital, Sofia, using paper maps to navigate, the FT reported.

"We have received information from Bulgarian authorities that the

See Full Page