The head of the Bulgarian national security agency DANS, Plamen Tonchev, assumes that the fire at the Starlink facility near Sofia was sabotage. “Such acts of sabotage cannot be ruled out in the future,” he warned in the Bulgarian parliament. On September 23rd was in a Starlink terminal south of Warsaw a fire also broke out. On Tuesday we were in Nürtingen Stuttgart two suspected saboteurs arrested who are said to have carried out the attack. The government in Warsaw suspects Russian secret services were behind the crime. Ukraine recently reported failures in the Starlink systemwhich is important for the country’s defense.
Unknown gunman shoots five Ukrainian soldiers
According to authorities, five Ukrainian soldiers were shot by an unknown person behind the front near Kharkiv. The Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s Office said the perpetrator was being searched for. Investigations are carried out in several directions. In particular, it is being examined whether the shooter could belong to a reconnaissance and sabotage squad of the Russian army.
The crime took place on Tuesday in a residential building in the Kharkiv district in the east of the country. The perpetrator opened fire on the soldiers; they succumbed to their injuries. No information was given about other possible motives for the crime. Ukraine has been fending off a large-scale Russian invasion for more than four and a half years
EU transfers billions to Kyiv for drones and missiles
The EU transferred 2.86 billion euros to Ukraine for the purchase of drones, air defense systems and missiles. “These funds will help Ukraine meet its urgent battlefield needs and strengthen its defense capability against Russia’s war of aggression,” said a spokesman for the EU Commission Brussels. The money is specifically intended for the procurement of military equipment from Ukrainian companies.
Among the speculations that the US company Starlink, at the request of US President Donald Trump, the performance of the Ukrainian armed forces intensively used satellite internet system may have been throttled in order to put pressure on the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky The Commission declined to comment.
A spokeswoman said they were aware of the reports of disruptions. As long as we don’t have more information, we can’t say anything more about it. The spokeswoman also emphasized that the commission had no indication that the USA had stopped passing on intelligence information. However, their wording did not exclude the possibility that there could be indications of a restriction on transfer.
Drones hit ships: NATO’s dilemma is evident off the coast of Bulgaria
The war in Ukraine is increasingly spreading to the Black Sea. But the fight over trade routes is increasingly affecting states that are not themselves involved in the war. The NATO therefore faces a problem. Read the full article here.
