European Council President Charles Michel has called for Russia to be stripped of its membership in the UN Security Council because of the war in Ukraine. “… When a permanent member of the Security Council unleashes an unprovoked and unjustifiable war, condemned by the General Assembly, his suspension from the Security Council should be automatic,” Charles Michel said.
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu also called for Russia to be deprived of the right of veto at the UN.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has signed a decree on the creation of military administrations in the occupied towns and villages in Luhansk and Kherson regions, so that they remain under Ukrainian administration despite the illegitimate so-called referendums Russia is holding there. In his nightly video address, President Zelensky urged Ukrainians in the occupied territories to “hide from the Russian mobilization by any means. Avoid conscription letters. Try to get to the free territory of Ukraine. But if you already get into the Russian army, then sabotage any activity of the enemy, hinder any Russian operations,” President Zelensky said.
Armed Russian occupiers have started going house-to-house to collect votes at gunpoint in the sham referendums, the General Staff of the Ukrainian Army wrote on Facebook.
Ukraine has stripped the Iranian ambassador of his accreditation and has reduced the number of diplomats at the Iranian embassy in Kyiv dramatically over Iran’s drone deliveries to Russia.
Ukraine’s Operational Command South reports that on 23 September a Russian drone dropped a K-51 grenade with chlorine gas during fighting near Kherson. Army medics undertook urgent action and there are no casualties, UNIAN reports.
“Five people from the parliamentary group are going to be “torn apart” during the voting for a cabinet but will, most probably, not give their support,” Ivelin Mihaylov, one of the founders of Velichie party said for the BNR. GERB-SDS..
In an analysis of the pension system in Bulgaria, the International Monetary Fund urges the country to raise pensions by raising social security contributions and doing away with the maximum insurable earnings. According to the analysis, pensions in..
Bulgarian tour operators and travel agents are hoping the new parliament will reconsider the decision to revert to the higher VAT (20%) for the industry as of 1 July. They are insisting that tourist packages be subject to 9% VAT until the end of..
Bulgaria’s national team of mathematics put up an excellent performance at the Junior Balkan Mathematical Olympiad. Six Bulgarian students returned from..
Bulgaria’s President Rumen Radev handed the first cabinet-forming mandate to Rossen Zhelyazkov who is the prime minister-designate of the largest..
On Tuesday the weather will be sunny and hot over most of the country. Clouds will form over Western and Central Bulgaria in the afternoon and there..
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