Новости за 08.03.2022

After unsuccessful attempts and shelling of civilians during the “silence” hours agreed between Russia and Ukraine, the evacuation in Sumy and Irpen began this morning, Reuters reported. Hours later, Ukraine announced that a humanitarian corridor in Mariupol had been shelled. A child has died, the country's foreign minister said.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said today that the West has not kept its promises to protect Ukraine from Russian bombing.

Russia is already the most sanctioned country in the world.

As of February 22, 2,778 new sanctions have been imposed on it, according to data from the Castellum.AI platform as of March 7, 2022.

On February 21, Russian President Vladimir Putin declared the Luhansk and Donetsk People's Republics independent, in response to which sanctions were imposed. On February 24, Russia invaded Ukraine.

Sanctions against Russia before February 22 are 2,754. The country is the second most sanctioned in the world after Iran. Читать дальше...

There is no risk to gas and oil supplies to Bulgaria in the event of a suspension of imports from Russia, Prime Minister Kiril Petkov announced from the rostrum of the National Assembly as part of “Parliamentary Control”, which was postponed from last Friday to Tuesday (March 8th). The prime minister said he had received assurances from Lukoil that they had the option of alternative supplies of non-Russian oil.

Ukrainian military intelligence says a senior Russian commander involved in the attack on Kharkiv has been killed. Ukraine's armed forces say Major General Vitaly Gerasimov, a veteran of the second Chechen war and Russian operations in Syria, has been killed along with several senior officers.

People posing as municipal officials in Burgas toured nursing homes and said they were collecting food and clothing for needy Ukrainian citizens.

The bread for the Bulgarians is provided until 2023. Bulgaria is buying grain at market prices and will be stored in the state reserve's warehouses, Prime Minister Kiril Petkov announced from the parliamentary rostrum.

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The Minister of Foreign Affairs Teodora Genchovska will visit the Republic of Moldova today, where she will meet with her Moldovan counterpart Nicu Popescu and representatives of the Bulgarian community in the city of Taraclia.

Bulgaria supports sanctions against Russia as a means of halting its invasion of Ukraine but is likely to seek an exception to a possible ban on Russian natural gas and oil imports if such a proposal is made. This was stated by Prime Minister Kiril Petkov in an interview with Reuters.

More than 100 workers remain stranded at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. They have been unable to leave the plant for 12 days after Russian troops took control of it on the first day of the invasion, the BBC reports.

International Women's Day is celebrated every year on March 8. This is a day of international recognition of women's economic, political and social achievements.

Russia is hiring Syrians and other foreign fighters to take part in the invasion of Ukraine, AFP reported, citing the Pentagon. According to the Wall Street Journal, there is information that Moscow has been gathering fighters in recent days, whom it hopes to help capture Kyiv.

Russia will announce a ceasefire at 10 a.m. Moscow time (9 a.m. Bulgarian time) and is ready to provide humanitarian corridors from several Ukrainian cities to evacuate locals. This was announced by the Russian news agencies, referring to the coordination headquarters in Moscow on the humanitarian situation in Ukraine.

Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky has said the Russian military’s actions are cynical towards the people under siege. In another video address, he said they were mining the roads themselves, which they had agreed on as humanitarian corridors.

2462 are the new cases of coronavirus infection in Bulgaria for the last 24 hours with 21,858 tests performed (11.26%), according to the Unified Information Portal. For comparison, yesterday the new cases of infection were 515.

Russian planes bombed apartment buildings in the city of Sumy and the surrounding area late last night, Ukrainian media reported, citing the head of the regional administration Dmitry Zhivitsky.