Sofia: Prime Minister of Bulgaria Rumen Radev announced that a drone entered Bulgarian airspace Saturday morning and exploded near the border with Romania and the gas pipeline linking Turkiye to Ukraine through the Balkans.
In a video posted by the Bulgarian government on social media, Radev said that the drone exploded about 1,000 meters from a gas pumping station belonging to the Trans-Balkan Pipeline, near the Kardam border crossing with Romania in the northeastern part of the country, close to the Black Sea.
The Bulgaria Premier highlighted that the drone was carrying a large quantity of explosives, yet that the incident caused no casualties.
In recent months, drone-related incidents have increased in Eastern European countries members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), which support Ukraine in confronting Russia.
