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Bulgaria’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Teodora Genchovska to visit Ukraine

Bulgaria's Minister of Foreign Affairs Teodora Genchovska
Photo: Bulgarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

On February 24, Bulgaria’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Teodora Genchovska will pay a visit to Ukraine together with her counterparts from Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia.

The President of the European Council Charles Michel is convening an extraordinary meeting of the EU leaders on Thursday to discuss the Ukraine crisis.

“The future of European security is being decided now in Ukraine”, President Volodymyr Zelensky said in Kyiv at a meeting with the Presidents of Poland and Lithuania. “Ukraine deserves European Union candidate status, and Poland and Lithuania will support it in this goal, the Presidents of the two countries said in a joint declaration with the Ukrainian President on Wednesday.”

Kyiv declared a state of emergency and began to mobilize reservists. Russia began evacuating its embassy in Kyiv.

The USA have informed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky of intelligence assessing that Russia is preparing to conduct a full-scale invasion within the next 48 hours, Newsweek informed.




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