Only 20 out of 200 000 ethnic Bulgarians living in Ukraine have been called up as the partial mobilization is ongoing, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin has said. Klimkin, who is on a visit to Bulgaria Monday, told his Bulgarian counterpart Mitov that Russian authorities were spreading false information and speculating on the issue of mobilization, with the latter not being carried out on an ethnic basis.Reports in Russian-language media over the past months suggested Bulgarians in Ukraine were being forced into fighting on Kiev’s side in the conflict with pro-Russian rebels in the Donbass region.Ukraine’s top diplomat blamed rebels …read more
Source: Novinite
