Bulgaria’s former president Rumen Radev has swept to a crushing parliamentary victory, securing roughly forty-five per cent of the vote and an absolute majority in the 240-seat chamber.
His Progressive Bulgaria coalition has opposed EU military aid to Ukraine and openly pushes to reopen dialogue with Moscow.
Radev told reporters Europe had “fallen victim to its own ambition to be a moral leader in a world without rules”.
Just one week after Viktor Orbán lost power in Hungary, the Kremlin has found a new ally inside the EU and NATO.
Brussels faces the awkward reality that Bulgarian support for sanctions and Ukraine arms packages is now in serious doubt.
Ukraine Strikes Russian Drone Factory Deep Inside Russia
Ukrainian Neptune missiles have destroyed the Atlant Aero drone factory in Taganrog overnight, one of the key sites producing the Molniya strike drones Russia has
20 April 2026
