The Ukrainian military authorities say that Russia’s promise to scale down military operations around Kyiv is a sham. During the night the Russian artillery continued to bombard the capital of Ukraine.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky stated, in his nightly address, that the initial signs at the Russian-Ukrainian talks in Istanbul could be called positive but that they did “not drown out the explosions or Russian shells”.
In a telephone conversation with France’s President Emmanuel Macron, the President of Russia Vladimir Putin rejected France’s request for a humanitarian operation for rescuing civilians from the besieged town of Mariupol. Putin stated that this can only happen if the Ukrainian fighters in the city lay down their arms.
At the UN Security Council Russia was accused of having caused a “global food crisis” by waging war in Ukraine, which is one of Europe’s breadbaskets. 94 ships of food are blocked in Ukrainian ports and 30% of the world export of wheat and 75% of sunflower oil come from the Black Sea region.
On Tuesday, overnight lows will range from 7°C to 12°C, rising to 12–16°C in eastern Bulgaria and around 9°C in Sofia. It will be a cloudy day with rain, mainly in the north and west of the country, which will continue into the night towards Wednesday...
According to data from the National Seismological Center at the National Institute of Geophysics, Geodesy and Geography - BAS, at 16:48 an earthquake with a magnitude of 3.5 was recorded in the area of the town of Simitli, near Blagoevgrad. The..
There are significantly fewer homeless people in Sofia in comparison to major European cities. This is shown by data released today from an international study under an international project covering 35 European cities, funded by the European..
Bulgaria’s GDP is expected to grow 3% this year, the European Commission said in its Autumn Economic Forecast, as reported by BTA. The projection marks..
The European Commission has approved 70 projects across the EU , worth more than €600 million , to support alternative fuels and reduce vehicle..
In 2026, Bulgaria will assume the presidency of the EU Strategy for the Danube Region for the second time. The symbolic handover of the presidency took..
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