Bulgaria’s ambassador in Moscow, Atanas Krastin, was summoned to the Russian Foreign Ministry on December 28 to be handed a note concerning the declaration of Bulgaria’s deputy military attache in the Russian capital as persona non grata, the Russian ministry said. Russia’s Foreign Ministry said in a media statement that Read more…
Bulgaria’s Defence Minister Krassimir Karakachanov signed on December 8 a contract worth 49.9 million leva (about 25.5 million euro) with Bulgarian firm Samel-90 for the supply of 98 armoured vehicles of 10 different types for the country’s special forces, a Defence Ministry statement said. The contract is to be carried Read more…
Saab said on December 8 that it had signed a contract with German shipbuilding company Lürssen and received an order to provide and integrate the combat system for the Bulgarian Navy’s new Multipurpose Modular Patrol Vessels, MMPV. Lürssen is the prime contractor to the Bulgarian Ministry of Defence, following the signing Read more…
United States Defence Secretary Mark Esper and Bulgarian Defence Minister Krassimir Karakachanov signed a 10-year road map charting defence co-operation between the two countries over the next decade, the US Department of Defence said in an October 6 statement. Bulgaria and the United States are Nato allies, and Esper praised Read more…
Six US F-16 fighter jets are participating in a joint mission with Bulgarian Air Force MiG-29s to protect Bulgaria’s air space from September 26 until October 30, Bulgaria’s Defence Ministry said. The F-16s are temporarily based at Graf Ignatiev Air Force Base, having arrived on September 18 and having taken Read more…
Commenting on September 24 on Bulgaria’s latest expulsion of Russian diplomats identified by the State Agency for National Security and prosecutors as spies, Prime Minister Boiko Borissov said that he had warned Russian President Vladimir Putin a few years “that I do not allow such things on the territory of Read more…
The Bulgarian Navy has taken delivery of two second-hand minesweepers bought from the Netherlands, the Ministry of Defence said. The vessels have been deployed at the naval station in Varna on Bulgaria’s Black Sea coast. The contract for the purchase and delivery, worth about two million euro, was signed in Read more…
The European Commission said that on September 18 it had made available an additional 23.8 million euro to Greece, under the Internal Security Fund, to support border management. This top up will support the deployment of border guards to improve border surveillance, address the need to enhance the reception and identification Read more…
About 750 military personnel from the Bulgarian army and the US Air Force in Europe have been participating in the joint training exercise Thracian Summer 2020, held in the area of in the area ofCheshnegirovo airfield. Thracian Summer 2020 is one of the largest international training exercises conducted under the Read more…
“Moscow calls on Eastern European partners to weigh the risks and consider the consequences of deploying the US military on a rotating basis on their territory,” said Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova. It is now about the emergence of a permanent military contingent of the United States and its Read more…