On Thursday, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy acknowledged that he had spoken on the cellphone with Bulgarian Prime Minister Rossen Jelyazkov.

Supply: European Pravda, citing Zelenskyy on X (Twitter)

Particulars: The president of Ukraine stated that he and the Bulgarian prime minister mentioned methods of strengthening power cooperation and outlined steps supposed to spice up power safety all through the area.

Additionally they mentioned cooperation within the defence sector, as Zelenskyy tweeted.

Quote from Zelenskyy: "The European Union's SAFE instrument gives many alternatives for this, and I proposed to the prime minister joint manufacturing tasks, together with these aimed toward enhancing safety within the Black Sea. Bulgaria is all in favour of cooperation with Ukraine. We agreed that our groups will work out all the small print."

Background:

• Final week, Bulgaria's parliament voted to ban gas exports to EU member states after the US imposed sanctions on the Russian oil firm Lukoil.
• Earlier, the Bulgarian Ministry of Inner Affairs accused Russian brokers of cooperating with migrant smugglers.

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