The US announced USD 2.98 billion in new military aid to Ukraine that will provide longer-term weapons and training to enable forces there to fight for years to come. With this latest military aid package for Ukraine, the US aid under President Joe Biden now totals USD 13.6 billion in 19 packages.
In an interview with the BNR, US ambassador to NATO Julianne Smith said the US believes kraine will prevail in this war, adding that she did not expect any change that could lead to a drastic cut or an end to the US economic and military aid for Ukraine. Ambassador Smith stated that a counteroffensive was in Ukraine's hands.
On Ukraine’s national day, thousands of Ukrainian refugees and Bulgarians carried out peace processions in many major cities around Bulgaria. In Sofia, the procession which was joined by protestors against possible negotiations with Russia’s Gazprom, marched along the central streets of the city to reach the monument to Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko, where they laid flowers.
After 17 MPs from the Movement for Rights and Freedoms, MRF, were expelled, among them the party’s other co-chair Dzevdet Chakarov, MRF MP Ahmed Vranchev expressed, in written form, a desire to leave the Movement’s parliamentary group. DPS..
Several European liberal parties have sent a letter to the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) to demand that Delyan Peevski be monitored, pointing out that he has been sanctioned for corruption by the US under the Global Magnitsky..
Greece’s Minister of Defence Nikos Dendias announced that Greece, Bulgaria and Romania are to establish a military mobility corridor in NATO’s Eastern flank. “Today my Bulgarian and Romanian counterparts, Mr. Atanas Zaprianov and Mr. Angel..
On Friday the weather will be sunny and hot. Clouds will form in the afternoon but there will only be isolated showers in some parts in Eastern..
President Rumen Radev is to hand the second governing-forming mandate next week. ''I expect We Continue the Change - Democratic Bulgaria (PP-DB) to..
The European Commission has approved state aid amounting to EUR 142 million (BGN 278 million) to support the energy sector, BNR’s correspondent in..
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