Recovery · Bulgaria
Electric reconnaissance drone recovered at sea near Tsarevo, Bulgaria
· Tsarevo · Varvara
Coastal aerial-drone recovery; individual origin unresolved
On 25 August 2026 an electric reconnaissance drone (UAV) was found in the sea between Tsarevo and Varvara, Bulgaria. It was inspected at sea and reported to be non-dangerous, and a Bulgarian Navy team from Burgas transported it to base.
No operator has been identified for the drone, and the releases reporting it gave no final identification. Associations with Russian or Ukrainian drones made for the wider group of finds do not identify this one. When the drone came down and the route it flew are unknown.
No casualties were reported.
Attribution and uncertainty
- Origin / operator / attribution
- Individual origin unresolved; cohort-level Russian/Ukrainian associations do not identify this object.
- Investigation / uncertainty
- No final individual operator identification in collected release.
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Map positions are approximate anchors for the named place, not verified incident coordinates.
- Reported date
- 2026-08-25
- Date basis
- Discovery/response date unless described as report date; EEST
- Location / jurisdiction
- Sea between Tsarevo and Varvara
- Event categories
- Coastal/sea discovery; identification; recovery or disposal
- What was reported
- Object inspected at sea.
- Aircraft / vessel / quantity
- Electric reconnaissance UAV
- Origin / operator / attribution
- Individual origin unresolved; cohort-level Russian/Ukrainian associations do not identify this object.
- Damage / casualties / disruption
- No casualties reported in cited account
- Response / outcome
- Burgas Navy team transported it to base.
- Investigation / uncertainty
- No final individual operator identification in collected release.
- Route / entry mechanism
- Found at sea/on shore; original flight route and crash date unknown
- Explosive payload
- Reported non-dangerous
- Counting / links
- Separate recovery site; an additional unique airframe is not established.
- Research provenance
- Added during export source checks; absent from the visible chronological report
Record E070. Record fields keep the register’s original wording.