Rumen Radev, Bulgaria's pro-Russian president, has declined to lead the Bulgarian mission at the NATO meeting in Washington due to "the position that he must defend regarding assistance to Ukraine".

Bulgaria's Cabinet of Ministers authorized the country's military on Aug. 7 to train Ukrainian soldiers within the framework of the NATO Security Assistance and Training for Ukraine (NSATU). NSATU was ...

Bulgaria has reached a major milestone in modernizing its air force as the final two F-16 Block 70 fighter jets from its first contract with Lockheed Martin arrived on December 16. This F-16 delivery ...

SOFIA. Bulgaria — Bulgarian President Rumen Radev has turned down a government proposal to lead the country’s delegation to NATO’s July summit in Washington, D.C., saying he was not consulted while it ...

Lockheed Martin has completed production of the initial F-16 Block 70 fleets for Bulgaria and Slovakia, boosting NATO interoperability and regional air defense.

MONTANA, Bulgaria -- NATO’s Euro-Atlantic Disaster Response Coordination Centre and the Bulgarian Ministry of Interior wrapped up Exercise Bulgaria 2025 here Sept. 12. The exercise was one of the ...

Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin has signed a decree instructing the Defense Ministry to end a series of military agreements with 11 Western nations, including Germany, Britain, Poland, and ...

Bulgaria on Wednesday received the first of 16 new F-16 fighter jets from the United States, marking a major step in modernizing its air force and aligning its military capabilities with NATO ...

SOFIA -- Caretaker Prime Minister Dimitar Glavchev and Russia-friendly President Rumen Radev will jointly represent Bulgaria at the NATO summit in Washington next month that is likely to discuss plans ...

SOFIA, Bulgaria -- In August 1990, a young member of the new Bulgarian parliament, Solomon Passy, proposed that Bulgaria quit the Warsaw Pact, the military alliance of the Soviet Union and its ...