EU’s Black Sea pledges reach €70 million after drone strikes on ships leave 34 dead or missing
The money goes to a Romanian-Bulgarian maritime security hub and sea rescue, as Kyiv takes the Black Sea to talks in Abu Dhabi
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Drones set a tanker ablaze off Romania. Three weeks later, human remains turned up during repairs in Varna
Prosecutors have ordered DNA tests to identify the dead, whose remains were severely damaged.
Germany just caught the man suspected of ordering sabotage on Ukraine’s Starlink lifeline
He allegedly hired two fellow Turkish citizens for the job and had them driven to the station south of Warsaw.
Germany holds two 19-year-olds over Bulgaria’s Starlink arson, and Sofia says they also attacked the network Ukraine fights with elsewhere in the EU
Bulgaria wants them extradited, and their lawyers say they will fight the warrant.
Drones keep sinking ships off Romania and Bulgaria—French and US patrol planes are watching
Days after NATO promised more planes and forensic teams, a drone sank a cargo ship near Constanța, killing a Ukrainian sailor.
Two Germans charged in absentia over Bulgaria’s Starlink fire, one of three recent attacks on satellite links Ukraine relies on against Russia
Prosecutors say the men crossed in from Serbia as tourists, set the antennas alight within hours, and left the same night.
Poland, Bulgaria, now Lithuania: Russia’s suspected arson campaign reaches a third Starlink site serving Ukraine
Lithuanian officials said the night attack was foiled, and the prime minister said he believes the people behind it are already known.
Two tankers burn off Romania’s Sulina as Bulgaria says it lacks proof Russia is behind the Black Sea ship attacks
Seven crew members of a San Marino-flagged chemical tanker were still missing hours after it caught fire at anchor off the mouth of the Danube.
Two ships sunk and a third set ablaze off NATO coasts in two days, and neither Bucharest nor Sofia will say “Russia”
Romania and Bulgaria have described the attacks only as drone strikes, without saying where the drones came from.
Second fire in a month hits the Bulgarian plant that ships ammunition to Ukraine, and sabotage is on the table
The country's interior minister has ordered every ammunition depot in the country inspected and says outside interference cannot be excluded.
Sofia gets seven minehunters from Belgium and the Netherlands for a sea Russia mined
Parliament signed off on two separate agreements this week, one a purchase and one a transfer, with the Dutch side restoring part of the fleet before it changes hands.
Moldova is investing in air defense against the Russian drones crossing from Ukraine—Romania shoots down the ones that reach it
Allied fighters over the neighboring NATO member have destroyed intruding drones repeatedly this year, while the neutral country in between can track them crossing but not shoot them down.
A gasoline and polystyrene mix—police call it napalm—was meant for a Ukrainian drone plant in Slovakia
Investigators say the three men charged were hired to set the fire, and about 70 employees could have been inside the hall when it went up.
Twelve kilometers from the war, a drone blast set a Moldovan field alight
Farther south, Bulgaria's defense ministry judged a separate drone that exploded near its gas network to be a Ukrainian decoy that strayed off course.
The MiG-29s Poland was about to junk may cross into Ukraine after all
Kyiv had wanted Warsaw to fund the overhauls; now it is offering a clean trade of aircraft for unmanned systems, Poland says.
Baltic nation boosts security at dam, gas storage facility due to Russian threat
Latvia's Prime Minister named a gas facility and the dam upstream of the capital as the sites now under heavier guard.
Two months in office, three blows to Ukraine: Bulgaria’s premier stacks Coalition of the Willing exit on aid freeze and sanctions blocks
Since May, Radev has stopped state military aid, defended two prominent Russians from EU blacklists, and now removed Bulgaria from the group backing Kyiv against Russian aggression.
Italy joins Bulgaria in resisting EU sanctions on Patriarch Kirill
Rome's objection traces back to the Vatican's unease at sanctioning a Christian leader
EU leaders agree to renew Russia sanctions for a full year for the first time as Bulgaria’s pro-Russian leader vows to veto the next batch
Rumen Radev wants the Russian oil company that runs his country's only refinery struck from the list, and he objects to sanctions on a Russian Orthodox bishop.
Bulgaria’s defense minister banned weapons to Ukraine. It’s not that simple
Ukraine does not currently receive free military aid from Bulgaria but maintains ongoing mutually beneficial commercial defense cooperation.