A day after Bulgarian Prime Minister Rumen Radev announced that Bulgaria would not join the “Coalition of the Willing” supporting Ukraine, Foreign Minister Velislava Petrova signed a declaration in Kyiv confirming the country’s commitment to the initiative and expressing readiness to increase its involvement in the coalition’s activities. Petrova signed the document during the Ukraine-Southeast Europe summit, where she joined European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in paying tribute to fallen Ukrainian soldiers.

Bulgarian Prime Minister Rumen Radev said that Bulgaria has no place in the “Coalition of the Willing,” arguing that the country should not join a format whose members support…

Bulgarian Prime Minister Rumen Radev stated that his country will no longer be part of the Coalition of the Willing—a group of states supporting Ukraine in its confrontation with…