Krapets
Black Sea village in north-east Bulgaria near the Romanian border.
Drones sank the cargo ship HS Dignity off Krapets, a village in Bulgaria's Dobrich Province, overnight on 12-13 October 2026. Prime Minister Rumen Radev put the sinking about 17 nautical miles offshore; 11 crew are missing.
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Krapets is a Black Sea coastal village in Shabla Municipality, Dobrich Province, in Bulgaria's north-east corner near the Romanian border. Romania ruled it as Carapcea from 1913 to 1940. It is one of the last villages on the Bulgarian coast before the frontier.
The village gave its name to the second sinking off Bulgaria in a week. The Guinea-Bissau-flagged HS Dignity sank there on the night of 12-13 October; rescuers brought five sailors ashore and 11 are missing.
No party has claimed the attack, and Sofia summoned Russia's ambassador over it. Bulgaria turned to NATO on 16 October, three days after the sinking, with a request for counter-drone systems and air defence.
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