{"id":572,"date":"2026-10-13T13:12:22","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T13:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/?p=572"},"modified":"2026-10-13T13:13:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T13:13:13","slug":"bulgaria-black-sea-drones-chelsea-3-october-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/?p=572","title":{"rendered":"DRONES HIT TWO SHIPS OFF BULGARIA AGAIN! | Ukrainian-owned Chelsea 3 damaged at 1:30 a.m.; one ship sank \u2014 Radev summons Russia\u2019s ambassador"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Black Sea just ate another merchant ship. Bulgarian Prime Minister <strong>Rumen Radev<\/strong> said two vessels were hit in drone attacks off Bulgaria\u2019s coast early Tuesday, with <strong>one of them sinking<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2026\/10\/13\/drone-attack-sinks-ship-off-bulgarias-black-sea-coast-pm-says\">Al Jazeera<\/a> reported (AP\/Reuters).<\/p>\n<p>The Ukrainian-owned <strong>Chelsea 3<\/strong>, sailing under a Maltese flag, was hit by <strong>three drones<\/strong> and damaged about <strong>18 nautical miles (33 km)<\/strong> off Bulgaria at about <strong>1:30 a.m. Tuesday<\/strong> (22:30 GMT Monday), Radev said. Its <strong>15-man crew<\/strong> \u2014 seven Ukrainians and eight Azerbaijanis \u2014 was rescued. Five got medical help; none were seriously hurt. One crew member from the ship that sank was also rescued.<\/p>\n<p>Radev called the strike \u201cabsolutely unacceptable\u201d and an attack \u201cin the immediate vicinity of Bulgarian territorial waters.\u201d He said there was no clear proof who launched the drones, but \u201cthe outcome benefits\u201d Russia \u2014 and that Bulgaria\u2019s Russian ambassador would be summoned.<\/p>\n<p>European Commission President <strong>Ursula von der Leyen<\/strong> condemned the hits on X, calling the Black Sea \u201canother front of escalation\u201d and thanking Bulgarian rescuers. NATO chief <strong>Mark Rutte<\/strong> said the alliance would keep monitoring and adjust its eastern-flank posture \u201cas needed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is not a one-off. Last week drones hit two ships off the same coast; one sank, and all <strong>10 crew<\/strong> from that vessel remain unaccounted for. Bulgaria sits on NATO\u2019s Black Sea rim \u2014 and the hybrid war is parking on its doorstep.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2026\/10\/13\/drone-attack-sinks-ship-off-bulgarias-black-sea-coast-pm-says\">Al Jazeera (AP\/Reuters) \u2014 Drone attack sinks ship off Bulgaria\u2019s Black Sea coast (Oct. 13, 2026)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Featured image: AI-generated editorial illustration by Bugle Blast.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukrainian-owned Chelsea 3 damaged at 1:30 a.m.; one ship sank \u2014 Radev summons Russia\u2019s ambassador<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":569,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/bb-bulgaria-black-sea-drones-1013.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=572"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572\/revisions\/573"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}