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Bulgaria has again asked the EU to help put an end to a blockade of the country's border with Greece by Greek farmers protesting against the new austerity measures planned by the government in Athens.

European Council President Donald Tusk says that Russian airstrikes in Syria dealt a blow to hopes of a ceasefire.

AFP reported that Tusk made the statement during his visit to Greece, and "with days to go until an internationally agreed 'cessation of hostilities'."

Bulgarian truck drivers have staged a counter-blockade at the Kulata checkpoint on the border with Greece on Tuesday.

The tensions escalated due to the continuing protests of Greek farmers who have been staging blockades along the border in the past weeks.

From the moment it was revealed that the Greek government bowed down to the unprecedented claim of Turkey not to land on the island of Rhodes to refuel the aircraft carrying Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras to Iran arguing that the island is a demilitarized zone, many hoped that the information is not accurate and things did not happen as the newspapers reported.

Bulgaria will raise the issue of the continuing blockades at checkpoints along its border with Greece at the meeting of the EU's General Affairs Council in Brussels on Tuesday.

The agenda of the meeting foresees no decision to be adopted on the issue, but a discussion is possible.

Turkish security forces have rescued 106 migrants and refugees caught in a storm in two boats in the Aegean Sea off the southwestern province of Mu?la and Antalya, the state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.      
Police said they rescued 55 migrants as they were attempting to reach the Greek island of Kos from Mu?la's Bodrum district on the night of Feb. 15.        

NATO should "have a land operation" along the Bulgaria-Turkey and the Greece-Turkey borders if its recently launched mission in the Aegean proves successful, Foreign Minister Daniel Mitov said on Tuesday.