Hristo Alexiev

An acrobatic plane that took off from Lesnovo Airport fell in the "Pobit Kamak" area. The pilot died on the spot.

The signal was given at 1:33 p.m., emergency services reported to the National Television. The ambulance arrived in 10 minutes.

President Rumen Radev described as shocking the price of natural gas for September after returning from an official visit to the UAE. Yesterday, the Commission for Energy and Water Regulation (EWRC) decided that it would rise the price by nearly 19% compared to August and make it BGN 353.21/Mwh.

The caretaker government does not intend to negotiate a new short-term, medium-term or long-term contract with Gazprom, but only to obtain quantities under the existing contract.

"Things with the interconnector to Greece are under control, the whole country has been mobilized. A lot of time has been wasted, in which nothing has really been done," said at a briefing Hristo Alexiev, Acting Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Policies and Minister of Transport and Communications, Chairman of the Crisis Staff.

The total number of COVID certificates downloaded through the National Health Information System exceeded 2 million. In the last 10 days alone, when the new anti-epidemic measures were introduced, consumers have downloaded a total of more than 1.05 million documents, which is 55% of the total number of certificates.

Water invades the ship Vera SU, stranded near the protected area Yailata in Bulgaria. This became clear on Saturday at an extraordinary briefing of the Ministers of Transport and Ecology Hristo Alexiev and Asen Lichev.

The vessel, which has been stranded near Yaylata for 13 days, has shifted and approached the shore.

An inexperienced sailor may have caused the shipwreck near Kamen Bryag on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast. Such a doubt was expressed by one diver during tv interview.

A task force has been established to coordinate the unloading of a Panamanian-flagged ship with fertilizers, that ran into cliffs in the Black Sea off the coast of Northern Bulgaria and is threatening to cause a major pollution of the sea water.

The decision for the task force was announced by Transport Minister Hristo Alexiev after the government's weekly meeting Wednesday.

A Dutch company, which was involved in salvaging the Kursk submarine, is drawing up a plan to retrieve the Vera Su ship, which is stranded in the Yaylata area on Bulgaria's northern Black Sea coast. This was announced at a briefing by Bulgaria's Minister of Transport Hristo Alexiev, who arrived at the scene of the incident.

This morning, President of Bulgaria Rumen Radev dissolved the acting caretaker government and presented the new one, which had to be formed after the 46th National Assembly failed to form a regular cabinet. There are three new faces in this latest caretaker government, led as its predecessor by Prime Minister Stefan Yanev.