In his nightly address, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy called for tougher sanctions against Moscow after Russian forces again attacked civilian cites in Ukraine. A working group of American and Ukrainian experts proposes cutting off Russian natural gas supplies to the European Union via the Turk Stream pipeline. The expert group recommends that the Russian gas for Europe flows only via the Ukrainian gas transmission network.
The plan, published on the website of the Ukrainian President, also envisages sanctions against Rosatom’s management, Lukoil, Gazprom and other Russian energy companies.
Moscow has seen “practically no results” from a pact with the United Nations that aimed to help Russia’s grain and fertilizer exports and blamed Western countries for creating a deadlock, Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said, Reuters reported. Russia has signaled that unless a list of demands is met to remove obstacles to those exports, it will not agree to extend a related deal beyond May 18 that allows the safe wartime export of grain from Ukraine’s Black Sea ports.
On Wednesday, minimum temperatures will range between minus 5° C. and zero, lower in the Northeastern parts of the country where they will drop down to minus 7° C., for Sofia around minus 1° C. During the day the weather will be predominantly cloudy..
The magazine of the Bulgarian news agency BTA called LIK dedicates its February issue to the Bulgarian National Radio. The magazine was presented today in the marble lobby of the BNR building. The BNR marked its 90 th anniversary on 25..
An analysis of the state and preparedness of the armed forces in 2024 was presented during the Chief of Defence Annual Conference in Sofia. In their statements at the event, both President Rumen Radev and Minister of Defence Atanas Zapryanov..
Hristo Stoichkov has been appointed the Sports Tourism Ambassador for the World Tourism Organization (UN Tourism). This became clear at an official..
The common will and economic potential of the two countries are important prerequisites for the upward development of bilateral relations, said President..
Increasing energy connectivity between countries in the region of Southeast Europe will reduce electricity prices, increase competitiveness and security..
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