Bulgarian Prime Minister Rumen Radev has said that a drone entered Bulgaria's airspace from the north and exploded near the Romanian border on Saturday morning.
According to the prime minister, there were no casualties or damage to infrastructure, as the drone exploded in a sunflower field 100 meters from the border with Romania. He noted that neither of the two neighboring countries had detected the drone.
Radev added that the incident occurred about 1,000 meters from Bulgaria's compressor station on the Trans-Balkan gas pipeline route, which connects Turkey and Ukraine.
"We will continue to monitor the situation and strengthen surveillance. Following this incident, we will also redeploy border police anti-drone detection and countermeasure capabilities from the border with Turkey to the border with Romania," Radev said.What do we know about the drone?
Speaking after an extraordinary meeting of his cabinet's security council, Radev did not specify where the drone came from or what type it was.
