Investigators probe explosive drone blast near Bulgaria-Romania pipeline

rtl.be (French)

A drone loaded with explosives exploded near a major gas pipeline in Bulgaria on Saturday, with no casualties; Bulgarian and Romanian radars did not detect it. Bulgaria's Defense Ministry identified it as a Maya decoy drone widely used by Ukrainian armed forces, saying nothing indicates a deliberate incident. The drone crashed in a sunflower field near the Romanian border, about 1,000 meters from a trans-Balkan pipeline compression station. Bulgarian PM Rumen Radev said the drone carried significant explosives and exploded near the Kardam border post. He offered no trajectory hypothesis; neither Bulgaria nor Romania detected it in their airspace.


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