Podcast in English
Text size
Bulgarian National Radio © 2025 All Rights Reserved

Protests in Bulgaria on date making one year since Russian invasion of Ukraine

Photo: Facebook

Protests are being organized in different cities of Bulgaria this evening as 24 February marks one year since the beginning of the war in Ukraine. In Sofia, the procession will begin in front of the presidency building, and the organizers do not spare their criticism of President Rumen Radev's reluctance to provide arms to Ukraine.

"We must stop Russia" - this is what the vice president of the European Commission, Valdis Dombrovskis, who is on a two-day visit to Bulgaria, said, stressing that Europe will help Ukraine as long as it is necessary to win the war. 

Dombrovskis visited the humanitarian centre of the Association of Ukrainian Organizations in Bulgaria "Mati Ukraine" together with the Ambassador of Ukraine Vitaly Moskalenko. Dombrovskis pointed out that the EU has accepted about 4 million Ukrainian refugees, about 50 thousand of whom are in Bulgaria.



Последвайте ни и в Google News Showcase, за да научите най-важното от деня!
Listen to the daily news from Bulgaria presented in "Bulgaria Today" podcast, available in Spotify.

More from category

Georg Georgiev

Bulgarian Foreign Minister: 'Macedonian identity and language' irrelevant to Skopje's EU integration.

'International law does not address the recognition of identities and languages, and this also applies to North Macedonia,' said Foreign Minister Georg Georgiev, quoted by BGNES. ‘Formulations such as “recognition of Macedonian identity” and..

published on 6/19/25 11:22 AM

Polish ambassador symbolically hands over EU presidency to Denmark

At a ceremony in the Bulgarian resort town of Sveti Vlas, the Polish Ambassador to Bulgaria, Maciej Szymański,  symbolically  handed over the presidency of the Council of the EU to the Danish Ambassador, Flemming Stender. Denmark will take over the..

published on 6/19/25 9:01 AM

Two Bulgarians have been evacuated from Iran

Following intense round-the-clock efforts by the Bulgarian Embassy in Tehran , the Foreign Ministry announced that two Bulgarian citizens had been successfully evacuated from the Islamic Republic of Iran. They crossed the Iranian-Azerbaijani border..

published on 6/19/25 8:46 AM