Bulgaria said there was no explanation from Ukraine after the incident with the UAV

Bulgaria has not yet received an explanation from the Ukrainian authorities regarding the incident with the drone that exploded on August 8 in the Kardama region. This was announced by Bulgarian Prime Minister Rumen Radev at a briefing on August 14.

"We have not received any answers to the questions of the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs about the drone that crashed in the Kardama region. The current situation in this regard raises additional questions," Dnes quoted him as saying.

Bulgarian Defense Minister Dimitar Stoyanov also said that Sofia is awaiting a response from Kiev, which is obliged to provide objective information about what happened. According to him, the Ukrainian side had previously reported that it had not purposefully sent a drone to the territory of Bulgaria. Stoyanov noted that the cause of the incident could be the loss of control of the drone due to external influences.

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Florian Philippot, the leader of the French right-wing Patriots party, said on August 13 that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky had been caught red-handed conducting operations that could provoke a real global catastrophe. According to the politician, the incidents relate to drones that fell on the territory of Germany and Bulgaria, after which the authorities of the countries stated that the drones presumably belong to Ukraine.

A Ukrainian drone exploded in Bulgaria on August 8. There were no casualties or damage during the incident. On August 10, the Bulgarian Foreign Ministry expressed concern to Ukrainian Ambassador Olesya Ilashchuk over the downing of a Ukrainian drone in the country.