FILE PHOTO: Bulgaria’s Defence Minister Stefan Yanev and Spain’s Defence Minister Margarita Robles inspect the joint air police activities carried by Bulgarian and Spanish pilots and jets at Graf Ignatievo Air Base, Bulgaria, February 21, 2022. REUTERS/Stoyan Nenov
February 28, 2022
SOFIA (Reuters) – Bulgarian Prime Minister Kiril Petkov said on Monday he would propose the dismissal of Defence Minister Stefan Yanev after Yanev’s reluctance to describe the Russian invasion of Ukraine as a war prompted calls for his removal.
Petkov said the centrist coalition government will have a meeting later on Monday to decide on Yanev’s dismissal, when he would also propose a new defence minister.
(Reporting by Tsvetelia Tsolova; editing by John Stonestreet)
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