A joint exercise is to take place in the region of Smolyan as of today until 27 March – Rhodopes 21, with the participation of more than 240 personnel from the land forces command, the 101st Alpine regiment, the 110th logistics regiment, the Charalitsa national military training complex, the Military Medical Academy and the NATO Mountain Warfare Centre of Excellence, the Ministry of Defence has announced.
The exercise aims to enhance interaction and interoperability of the formations in winter mountain conditions and boost tactical survival skills. On 19 March the participants will demonstrate camping, survival, search and rescue, as well as medical evacuation skills in rough terrain in the region of Golyam Perelik peak.
At 11.00 a.m. today, President Rumen Radev will hand over a mandate to form a government to the candidate for prime minister, nominated by the second largest parliamentary group in the 50th National Assembly - that of "We Continue the Change-Democratic..
Clouds will temporarily break by midnight. Sunny weather will prevail across most of the country on Monday before midday. Around and after noon, clouds will develop again. There will be brief showers of rain accompanied by thunder in places, more..
I nterior Minister Kalin Stoyanov and Prime Minister Dimitar Glavchev today visited the heavily fire-affected village of Voden and expressed their gratitude to the Turkish firefighters who took part in fighting the wildfires in Yambol region . They,..
A total of 60 officers from the Bezmer and Kabile units are on the ground with equipment for firefighting, Bulgaria's Defence Minister Atanas Zapryanov..
A state of emergency remains in force in seven villages in the border municipality of Bolyarovo. The fight against the fire at the village of Voden..
A fire has started in Greece a kilometre and a half from the Bulgarian border and is slowly moving towards it. The fire is located in an extremely..
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