Days before the NATO summit in Madrid at the end of June, four Bulgarian foreign ministers and six military officials called on the Bulgarian authorities to declare a stance on providing arms and ammunition to Ukraine. The ten also insisted on..
58.8% of Bulgarians disapprove of Vladimir Putin's actions in Ukraine. However, 23.3% do not hide that they rather approve of these actions. Most of them are elderly people, a Gallup International Balkan study shows 50.7% say that the..
There are 81,486 Ukrainian refugees in Bulgaria as 45,000 of them are children. All of them have already asked for temporary protection. After their registration with their personal number of a foreigner, every refugee can use their..
Just 54% of Bulgarians say that the war in Ukraine is a threat to EU security and support the development of a common European policy on defense. The average level for the EU is about 70 percent, data by a Eurobarometer survey from..
We do not see a higher level of readiness in Russia's nuclear forces, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg told Germany's Bild . "At the same time, Russia's jingling of nuclear weapons is dangerous and irresponsible. Putin must know that nuclear war..
Because of the war in Ukraine, the active monitoring of the Black Sea space continues. “ We categorically guarantee the freedom of maritime shipping and the safety of Bulgaria’s territorial waters in the corridors for merchant vessels,” said Navy..
More than 330,000 Ukrainians have entered Bulgaria since the beginning of the war. To date, about 78,000 people are residing in the country . Approximately half of them are accommodated in state-owned facilities and hotels under the new humanitarian..
There is no immediate military threat to Bulgaria's territorial integrity and sovereignty, reads an extraordinary text in the Defense Ministry's report on the state of defense last year, included because of the war in Ukraine. The..
Ukraine’s Defense Ministry said its forces had won back some territory in a counter offensive in Kherson province, Reuters reports. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenski described the fight for Severodonetsk as “probably one of the most..
Answering a question whether Bulgaria would send Ukraine military aid, Prime Minister Kiril Petkov answered, while on a visit to Sadovo, that there was a decision approved by parliament not to send weapons, only to repair Ukrainian combat..
