{"id":15828,"date":"2026-05-13T06:37:42","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T06:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/13\/athens-certain-sea-drone-is-ukrainian\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T06:37:42","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T06:37:42","slug":"athens-certain-sea-drone-is-ukrainian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/13\/athens-certain-sea-drone-is-ukrainian\/","title":{"rendered":"Athens \u2018certain\u2019 sea drone is Ukrainian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div itemscope=\"\" itemprop=\"associatedMedia\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\">\n                                                                    <picture><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/sea_drone_skaramanga-320x200.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"600\" class=\"picture-main-block-image\" data-nxsrc=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/sea_drone_skaramanga.jpg\" alt=\"Athens \u2018certain\u2019 sea drone is Ukrainian\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/sea_drone_skaramanga.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n                        <\/source><\/picture>\n<p>The Ukrainian-made drone is at the Skaramagas naval base, where it is undergoing technical analysis. This photo shows the device&#8217;s warhead, featuring specialized front-end curvatures designed to direct the blast wave and maximize impact.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p>Defense Minister Nikos Dendias, speaking at a gathering with his EU colleagues, said Tuesday he was \u201ccertain\u201d the unmanned explosives-laden sea vessel found last Thursday off the coast of the island of Lefkada in western Greece was Ukrainian.<\/p>\n<p>Ukrainian Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov, who was taking part in the meeting via online link, claimed ignorance but promised to investigate and come back with answers.<\/p>\n<p>Fedorov\u2019s stance came as no surprise. Dendias, for his part, said that Greece had now established with certainty that \u201cthe unmanned surface vessel\u201d we retrieved \u2026 is Ukrainian.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dendias also echoed statements made by Foreign Minister George Gerapetritis Monday, declaring that broadening the war against Russia to the Mediterranean is a dangerous development.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe presence of this USV, the sea drone, affects the liberty (and) security of shipping. It is an extremely serious issue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Ukrainian sea drone, dubbed as similar to Magura-class vessels but still different, remains at Skaramangas Shipyard, west of Athens, where experts will try to ascertain its itinerary and technical specifications. This reverse engineering aims less at uncovering any technical secrets than finding out how the vessel ended in Greece.<\/p>\n<p>Defense Ministry officials told Kathimerini that, when the evaluation of the vessel ends, it will forward the file to the Coast Guard and they, in turn, to judicial authorities.<\/p>\n<p>The same officials responded to criticism from opposition parties that authorities had failed to locate the vessel, which was found by fishermen, saying that it would be as difficult for the Coast Guard to find the vessel as to find a small pleasure boat.<\/p>\n<p>Also, the Greek Navy maintains a reduced presence in the Ionian Sea, with the overwhelming bulk of its resources in the Aegean Sea, where the greatest danger to Greece \u2013 from nominal ally Turkey \u2013 lurks.<\/p>\n<p>The bigger picture concerns how this episode will affect Greece\u2019s relations with Kyiv. Athens has supported Kyiv from the start of the Russian invasion on the principle of the inviolability of borders, whatever the differences. It has provided credit and military hardware through third parties.<\/p>\n<p>The EU is determined not to let such episodes to obscure the more important issue on how to keep Ukraine supplied with resources in the coming months.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n        var NXFBPixelFunc = function () {\n            document.removeEventListener(\"scroll\", NXFBPixelFunc);\n            setTimeout(function () {\n                !function (f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\n                    if (f.fbq) return;\n                    n = f.fbq = function () {\n                        n.callMethod ?\n                            n.callMethod.apply(n, arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments)\n                    };\n                    if (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;\n                    n.push = n;\n                    n.loaded = !0;\n                    n.version = '2.0';\n                    n.queue = [];\n                    t = b.createElement(e);\n                    t.async = !0;\n                    t.src = v;\n                    s = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n                    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s)\n                }(window, document, 'script',\n                    'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n                fbq('init', '109138906120213');\n                fbq('track', 'PageView');\n            }, 0)\n        };\n        document.addEventListener(\"scroll\", NXFBPixelFunc);\n    <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/politics\/foreign-policy\/1303592\/athens-certain-sea-drone-is-ukrainian\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ukrainian-made drone is at the Skaramagas naval base, where it is undergoing technical analysis. This photo shows the device&#8217;s warhead, featuring specialized front-end curvatures designed to direct the blast wave and maximize impact. 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