On Tuesday, Bulgarian Prime Minister Rumen Radev disclosed that a US Navy P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol and reconnaissance aircraft, tasked to NATO, had begun patrols over the Black Sea. Bulgaria, which joined NATO in 2004, the EU in 2007 and the “Eurozone” this year,...
Drone attacks on commercial shipping in the Black Sea on Tuesday sank one ship and damaged another. The cargo ship Dignity, a Guinea-Bissau-flagged vessel, was sunk. The Ukrainian-operated coastal freighter Chelsea, a Malta-flagged vessel, was disabled. Both ships...
Bulgaria's new government will stop sending military aid to Ukraine, the country's defense minister said on Tuesday, as the more than four-year-old war grinds on with no end in sight. "We have already made it clear that the war in Ukraine will not be resolved on the...
A drone carrying an explosive device was found on Bulgaria's Black Sea coast on Sunday evening, an incident Bulgaria's defense minister said was likely "related" to the war in Ukraine. The drone was found on rocks next to a boat mooring in the resort town of...
Russia's Gazprom has halted gas deliveries to Poland and Bulgaria over the countries' refusal to pay in rubles. In March, Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered "unfriendly" countries to pay for gas in rubles in response to the US-led Western sanctions campaign...
Bulgaria does not see the need for more NATO troops to be deployed to its territory, the Bulgarian defense minister said on Tuesday. Over the weekend, German media reported that NATO's top commander discussed the possibility of sending more troops to Bulgaria and...
NATO's top commander is considering sending more troops to Romania and Bulgaria to counter Russia, the German newspaper Der Spiegel reported on Saturday. The report said the plan would extend NATO's "Enhanced Forward Presence," under which battlegroups are deployed to...
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