{"id":2622,"date":"2026-10-13T14:01:02","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T09:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=2622"},"modified":"2026-10-13T14:01:02","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T09:01:02","slug":"drone-sinks-ship-off-bulgarias-black-sea-coast-prime-minister-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=2622","title":{"rendered":"Drone sinks ship off Bulgaria&#8217;s Black Sea coast, prime minister says"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Two ships were hit by drones \u200coff Bulgaria\u2019s Black Sea coast, and one of them sank, in the second such incident in a week, Prime Minister \u200bRumen Radev said on Tuesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Ukrainian-owned \u201cChelsea 3\u201d, sailing \u200bunder the Maltese flag, was hit by three drones and \u2060damaged some 18 nautical miles (33 km) off the Bulgarian coast \u200baround 1:30am, Radev said.<\/p>\n<p>Its crew &#8211; seven Ukrainians \u200band eight Azerbaijanis &#8211; had been rescued. Five crew members received medical assistance, but no one was seriously injured.<\/p>\n<p>One crew member of \u200bthe sunken ship had also been rescued, Radev said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis \u200bis absolutely unacceptable \u2014 another attack in the immediate vicinity of Bulgarian \u200cterritorial \u2060waters,\u201d Radev said in a televised address.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am due to speak with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Radev said there was no clear evidence of who carried out the \u200battack but \u201cthe outcome \u200bbenefits the \u2060Russian Federation\u201d, adding that he would summon the Russian ambassador about the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Bulgaria does \u200bnot border either Ukraine or Russia, but \u200bas a \u2060NATO member, it holds a strategic position on the Black Sea, where both countries have major ports.<\/p>\n<p>There are \u2060growing \u200bconcerns about hybrid attacks involving \u200bdrones by Russia as it wages war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two ships were hit by drones \u200coff Bulgaria\u2019s Black Sea coast, and one of them sank, in the second such incident in a week, Prime Minister \u200bRumen Radev said on Tuesday. The Ukrainian-owned \u201cChelsea 3\u201d, sailing \u200bunder the Maltese flag, was hit by three drones and \u2060damaged some 18 nautical miles (33 km) off the Bulgarian coast \u200baround 1:30am, Radev said. Its crew &#8211; seven Ukrainians \u200band eight Azerbaijanis &#8211; had been rescued. Five crew members received medical assistance, but no one was seriously injured. One crew member of \u200bthe&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}