Mystery sea drone in Greece is from ‘foreign state’: minister

A oversea drone recovered this week disconnected the Greek Ionian land of Lefkada is from a “foreign state”, the defence curate said connected Saturday, arsenic a subject source said explosives had been recovered connected board.

“You saw a drone belonging to a overseas state that was retrieved extracurricular Greek territorial waters a fewer days ago… we cognize what it is, and we much oregon little cognize what it contains,” Defence Minister Nikos Dendias told a league of the ruling New Democracy enactment successful Thessaloniki.

A Greek subject source told AFP that service and navy experts had been making the drone harmless for transport to Athens aft explosives were recovered connected board.

The source said the unmanned surface vehicle “resembles” a Magura-class oversea drone used by Ukraine’s equipped forces against Russian ships successful the Crimea.

The Greek coastguard connected Friday said it had taken custody of the drone aft it was towed to a Lefkada larboard by fishermen, earlier handing it implicit to the equipped forces.

Greek media person reported that it was recovered connected Thursday with its motor still running.

Ukraine has admitted targeting Russian tankers successful the Mediterranean.

In December, Kyiv said it had deed a Russian “shadow fleet” tanker with aerial drones successful the Mediterranean, its archetypal strike successful the neutral oversea since Russia’s full-scale penetration of Ukraine successful February 2022.

A Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) source said the strike was a “new, unprecedented special operation” — Kyiv’s archetypal successful the Mediterranean, carried retired astir 2,000 kilometres (1,250 miles) from the country’s borders.

It claimed the tanker, the QENDIL, had “sustained captious damage”.

Source: AFP