Bulgaria summons Ukrainian ambassador over drone incident

Ukraine's ambassador has been summoned to the Bulgarian Foreign Ministry after a suspected Ukrainian drone exploded near a compressor station on the Trans-Balkan gas pipeline in Bulgaria.

Source: BNT, as reported by European Pravda

Details: Bulgaria's Foreign Ministry said Foreign Minister Velislava Petrova had summoned Ukrainian Ambassador Olesia Ilashchuk over the drone incident on 8 August.

The ministry said the meeting would take place on Monday 10 August, as Ilashchuk has not yet returned to the country.

Background:

• Bulgaria's prime minister said earlier that the drone had entered Bulgarian airspace from Romania before exploding about a kilometre from a compressor station on the Trans-Balkan gas pipeline, near the former Kardam border crossing.
• The Bulgarian Defence Ministry believes it was most likely a Ukrainian Maya decoy drone.
• Ukraine's Foreign Ministry stressed that if the drone was indeed Ukrainian, it had not entered Bulgarian territory as a result of any deliberate action by Ukraine. Kyiv also said it was open to cooperating with Sofia to establish all the circumstances of the incident.

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