Opposition Democratic Bulgaria calls for steps to be taken after new drone attacks on vessels

Opposition coalition Democratic Bulgaria put forward on October 13 five steps that it said need to be taken in response to the latest attacks on merchant vessels very close to Bulgaria’s territorial waters.

“Today, a Ukrainian ship, with a Ukrainian crew, has already been hit very close to Bulgaria’s territorial waters by three Russian drones, and a second one has sunk near Krapets. The authorities need to get their heads out of the sand. We will help them with what needs to happen,” Democratic Bulgaria said.

First, Russian ambassador Eleonora Mitrofanova should be summoned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for explanations and handed a note, Democratic Bulgaria said.

Second, Bulgaria should demand categorical guarantees from Russia that there will be no such attacks.

Third, Bulgaria to initiate urgent consultations in Nato, it said.

Urgently, the Prime Minister and the heads of security and intelligence services should be heard in Parliament today.

Fifth, Bulgaria should request Nato to deploy adequate air defence along Bulgaria’s coast in order to protect the country.

Democratic Bulgaria said that formation states that the policy of Prime Minister Roumen Radev and President Iliana Yotova demeaning themselves in front of Russia did not impress Russian ruler Vladimir Putin, Democratic Bulgaria said.

“It was clear that Russia was hitting the ships off the coast of Bulgaria. Even at the Consultative Council on National Security, one of the services reported that according to partner intelligence data, it was undoubtedly Russia. And the heads of the State Agency for National Security, Military Intelligence and the State Intelligence Agency had no doubt that it was Russia attacking.”

“Then we from Democratic Bulgaria demanded that Mitrofanova be summoned, that she be handed a note and that Bulgaria demand an end to any attacks on merchant ships by Russia in Bulgaria’s exclusive economic zone,” Democratic Bulgaria.

Then Radev and Yotova did not dare to tell the truth to the Bulgarians and mumbled that things were “50:50”, the opposition group said, referring to the Prime Minister and the President refusing to apportion blame.

“The government horribly kowtowed before the Kremlin once again,” Democratic Bulgaria said, saying that the policy of kowtowing and fear leads to this – the more you kowtowing before Putin, the harder they hit you.

“Today we have a president who is afraid to call Russia an aggressor,” the group said.