The Black Sea around Odesa and Crimea sees near-constant GPS jamming and spoofing linked to the war.
Check the live reading above and open the map. FLYAWAY reads GPS accuracy from the aircraft over Odesa and refreshes every few minutes.
When the reading is high, treat GPS near Odesa as unreliable: keep the drone in sight, be ready to fly manually, and do not rely on return-to-home. When it is severe, do not fly.
The Black Sea around Odesa and Crimea sees near-constant GPS jamming and spoofing linked to the war.
Odesa lies on the north-western shore of the Black Sea, about 300 kilometres from the Crimea and northern Black Sea zone where GPS interference is documented — the closest of these coastal cities to that area. Its waters form part of the maritime approaches most exposed to jamming and spoofing.
The northern Black Sea has been subject to near-constant GPS jamming and spoofing since Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine, as reported by shipping and aviation monitors across the region. Odesa sits within this heavily contested zone, where mariners and operators should treat satellite navigation as unreliable and cross-check positions by other means.
Odesa is Ukraine's principal Black Sea port and the hub of its wartime grain-export corridor, where maritime navigation is both critical and heavily contested. Vessels moving through these approaches rely on GNSS to hold course in confined and busy waters, so interference directly complicates the safe passage on which the export corridor depends.
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