A drone crossed into Bulgaria from Romania at 8:10 a.m. Saturday and exploded about 100 meters inside Bulgarian territory near a Trans-Balkan gas pipeline compressor station. Bulgaria's Defense Ministry says it was likely a Ukrainian MAYA decoy drone. No indication the crash was intentional.
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