Bulgarian Prime Minister Kiril Petkov met with the Chairman of the NATO Military Committee, Admiral Rob Bauer. NATO's strategic plans for strengthening and defending the Eastern Flank were discussed during the talks. The prime minister emphasized the need for NATO-EU coordination on infrastructure that can be used by allies for both civilian and military purposes. Admiral Bauer agreed with Bulgaria's strategic approach and noted that sharing the burden, as well as the risk, are an important part of NATO solidarity.

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The plane, sent from Moscow to pick up expelled Russian diplomats from Greece and then from Spain, was forced to travel 15,000 km on a detour due to a ban on flights to the EU, according to the flight tracking site FlightRadar24.

"While Spain and Greece made a one-time exception for the aircraft to enter their airspace, the flights flew past other countries that maintain bans on Russian flights," the website said.

The total length of the flight is 15,163 km, slightly less than the current longest flight in the world between Singapore and New York.

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Russia has declared diplomats from the Bulgarian embassy in Moscow undesirable, the Russian Foreign Ministry said. Later, the news was confirmed by the Bulgarian Foreign Ministry.

The measure is in response to the expulsion of 10 Russian diplomats from Bulgaria in March.

The note for the expulsion was handed to our ambassador in Russia Atanas Krastin.

In early April Russia declared two Bulgarian diplomats persona non grata.

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