Controlled disposal · Bulgaria
Floating drone destroyed at sea by Navy near Pomorie, Bulgaria
· Off Pomorie
Coastal aerial-drone recovery; individual origin unresolved
On 26 August 2026 a floating object in the Black Sea near Pomorie, Bulgaria, was identified as a drone (UAV). The Bulgarian Navy destroyed it at sea.
The exact charge was not stated, and the controlled destruction does not by itself show that the drone carried a live warhead. No operator has been identified, 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.
Sources · 2
Full record
Controlled disposal by authorities; kept separate from incident explosions.
Map positions are approximate anchors for the named place, not verified incident coordinates.
- Reported date
- 2026-08-26
- Date basis
- Discovery/response date unless described as report date; EEST
- Location / jurisdiction
- Black Sea near Pomorie
- Event categories
- Coastal/sea discovery; identification; recovery or disposal
- What was reported
- Floating object identified as drone.
- Aircraft / vessel / quantity
- 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
- Navy destroyed it at sea.
- 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
- Exact charge not stated
- Counting / links
- Disposal is part of discovery response. Controlled destruction alone does not prove a live warhead.
- Research provenance
- Added during export source checks; absent from the visible chronological report
Record E073. Record fields keep the register’s original wording.