100kg War Drone Washes Up Off Greek Island -Opposition Demands Answers as Government Stays Silent on Origin

Greece's main absorption enactment has accused the authorities of "security negligence" and leaving the state arsenic an "open field" for overseas combat operations, aft Defense Minister Nikos Dendias refused to disclose the root of an equipped drone carrying 100 kilograms of explosives recovered drifting disconnected Lefkada connected Friday.

PASOK defence spokesperson Michalis Katrinis said Mr. Dendias' assertion to cognize "what the drone is and what it contains" — portion revealing thing publically — was a "grim scenario" that near Greek citizens successful the acheronian astir a nonstop menace to nationalist sovereignty.

Mr. Katrinis warned that Greece risked becoming a "theater of warfare operations" and accused the ruling New Democracy authorities of repeating the signifier of earlier nationalist surveillance scandals — claiming cognition portion withholding accountability.

He urged the authorities to clarify whether the instrumentality had been monitoring nationalist information infrastructure.

The drone was discovered by a fisherman adjacent a coastal cave connected Lefkada connected Friday. The subject safely detonated the payload connected Saturday.

The trade bears a resemblance to a Magura-class unmanned aboveground vas — deployed by Ukrainian forces successful the Black Sea and Mediterranean to onslaught Russian shadow-fleet tankers — though Athens has not confirmed that identification.

Military analysts accidental it apt drifted into Greek waters aft a navigation nonaccomplishment oregon was launched from a adjacent parent ship.

The Defense Ministry had not confirmed the drone's state of root arsenic of Sunday evening, maintaining lone that the concern was nether afloat control.