site.btaUkrainian FM Kuleba Meets National Assembly Chair Minchev

National Assembly Chair Nikola Minchev told the Ukrainian Foreign Minister, Dmytro Kuleba, on Wednesday that Bulgaria will continue within its capabilities to fully support Ukraine and its people.  

Minchev noted that the National Assembly approved a declaration already in the first days of the conflict, which condemned Russia’s military aggression in Ukraine and supported the imposition of sanctions against the aggressor. Bulgaria closed its airspace to Russian operators and received a large number of Ukrainian refugees, which is thanks to the efforts of the institutions in Bulgaria and also of the Bulgarian society, Minchev said. 

He added that Ukraine's future is in the European family and Bulgaria supports its EU perspective. According to him, every country should be free to choose its own future.

Ukrainian MP Anton Kisse, who heads the Association of Bulgarians in Ukraine and is now on Kuleba's delegation, said that support for Ukraine is support for the Bulgarian diaspora in the country too. He noted that a lot of Bessarabian Bulgarians had died since the beginning of the war. 

The meeting was attended by Bulgarian Foreign Minister Teodora Genchovska, Ukrainian Ambassador to Bulgaria Vitalii Moskalenko, and Continue the Change MP Iskren Mitev, Chair of the Parliamentary Friendship group Bulgaria-Ukraine.