The executive Board of the International Monetary Fund has approved USD 1.4 billion in emergency funding to support Ukraine. The disbursement will help meet urgent balance of payment needs arising from the impacts of the ongoing war. According to Kristalina Georgieva, Managing Director of the IMF, the Russian military invasion in Ukraine will cause a deep recession in Ukraine this year.
War in Ukraine continues for the 15 consecutive day. Fighting near the capital city Kyiv has intensified. Shortly after midnight, it was reported that residential areas and a gas pipeline were hit in the city of Okhtyrka, Sumy region.
A maternity and children’s hospital in the city of Mariupol has been damaged by a Russian air strike. At least 17 people were reported injured. The United Nations, the USA, humanitarian organizations, including Doctors Without Borders, have condemned the attack. UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres called the attack “horrific”. “This senseless violence must stop”, Antonio Guterres wrote on Twitter.
"A genocide of Ukrainians is taking place”, President Volodymyr Zelensky said and called on the West to impose even tougher sanctions on Russia.
Today, Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Ukraine’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Dmytro Kuleba are to meet in Antalya (Turkey) in the first high level talks since the beginning of war in Ukraine.
Some of the Bulgarians in Lebanon were evacuated on a government aircraft flight on Monday evening. The first group, consisting of 89 people, mostly families, mothers with children and elderly people, was welcomed by caretaker Premier Dimitar..
The commercial launch of the liquefied natural gas terminal in Alexandroupolis, Greece, is expected today . The terminal has already successfully completed all commissioning tests. The opening was originally scheduled for April 2024, but was later..
On Tuesday it will be sunny and windy in most parts of the country. Clouds will develop in the northeast and along the Black Sea coast, where it may rain in places. Lows will be between 5 and 10°C, 5°C in Sofia. Highs will be between 16 and 21°C...
A State Aviation Operator crew is standing by to fly to Lebanon as soon as the phased evacuation of the Bulgarians there is given a green light. This..
On Monday, there will still be showers in the eastern half of the country. It will stop raining by the evening. Clouds will break in the western part..
Travelling to Israel and staying in the country should be avoided, except in case of emergency, the Bulgarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said...
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