Bulgaria: What does the Ukrainian drone incursion reveal?
- When a drone entered Bulgaria's airspace on Saturday and exploded in a sunflower field near the northeastern village of Kardam and about 100 meters (328 feet) from a border checkpoint with Romania, the immediate question was where the aircraft had come from.
- Following an on-site check, the Bulgarian Defense Ministry said the drone was a Ukrainian-manufactured Maya decoy aircraft used to activate and deceive the enemy's drone systems.
- And while both Bulgarian and Ukrainian officials confirmed that the first drone explosion on Bulgarian territory since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in
Confirmed
- When a drone entered Bulgaria's airspace on Saturday and exploded in a sunflower field near the northeastern village of Kardam and about 100 meters (328 feet) from a border checkpoint with Romania, the immediate question was where the aircraft had come from.
- Following an on-site check, the Bulgarian Defense Ministry said the drone was a Ukrainian-manufactured Maya decoy aircraft used to activate and deceive the enemy's drone systems.
- And while both Bulgarian and Ukrainian officials confirmed that the first drone explosion on Bulgarian territory since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in
Sources: DW