site.btaOver 40 Bessarabian Bulgarians to Be Evacuated from Moldova

Bulgaria’s Ambassador in Chisinau Evgueni Stoytchev told the Foreign Ministry in Sofia that 40 Bulgarians wishing to be evacuated will leave for Bulgaria on Tuesday.

Foreign Minister Teodora Genchovska, who will visit Moldova on Tuesday, will take the Bulgarians on her flight back to Sofia.

“We continue to evacuate Bulgarians and Bulgarian citizens who wish to be evacuated,” the Foreign Minister said after meeting with the Bulgarian Ambassador to Ukraine Kostadin Kodjabashev and Bulgaria’s Consul General in Odessa Svetoslav Ivanov.

Genchovska said that the 1,000 Bulgarian nationals who have been evacuated from Ukraine since the start of the military conflict there are almost all permanent and temporary residents there.

As from March 6, the Foreign Ministry, jointly with the Defence Ministry, organize daily bus services from the Moldovan border with Ukraine and from the Moldovan border with Romania to Varna for Bulgarian citizens and Bessarabian Bulgarians.

Some 150,000 Bulgarians resettled from Southeastern Bulgaria to Wallachia, Bessarabia (which now is divided between present-day Moldova and Southwest Ukraine), Russia and Southern Ukraine between 1774 and 1852 in the wake of several Russo-Turkish wars.