Balgarianovinite.com Foreign Minister Velislava Petrova on Saturday invited the Ukrainian Ambassador to Bulgaria, Olesya Ilashchuk, to a meeting after a drone from the north exploded 100 metres inside Bulgaria’s territory earlier in the day.
The two will meet on Monday as Ambassador Ilashchuk is not currently in Bulgaria, the Foreign Ministry told BTA.
Earlier on Saturday, at a briefing at the Council of Ministers, Prime Minister Rumen Radev said that a drone had entered Bulgarian airspace and exploded 100 metres inside the Bulgarian border, coming from the direction of Romania. The incident occurred at 8:10 a.m. Bulgarian time, 200 m from the former border checkpoint between Bulgaria and Romania near Kardam and 1,000 m from the Bulgarian compressor station of the Trans-Balkan gas pipeline.
The Defence Ministry said that, according to an initial analysis of the debris, the drone was most likely a Maya decoy vehicle. The ministry said that drones of this type are widely used by the Ukrainian armed forces and added that there is currently no reason to believe that the incident was deliberate.
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