#BREAKING | 🇧🇬 — A large-scale search-and-rescue operation is underway in the Black Sea after drones struck two vessels inside Bulgaria’s Exclusive Economic Zone the first reported attack of its kind in Bulgaria’s EEZ.

The Palau-flagged ABLE had departed Romania and was bound for Turkey when it was hit. The vessel caught fire, forcing all 18 crew members to abandon ship. They were rescued by the Bulgarian-flagged ferry DIOSCURIA, with several sailors reportedly injured and given first aid.

The Togo-flagged ALFA WATAN was sailing from Turkey toward Galați, Romania, when it was struck. The vessel suffered critical structural damage and sank east of the Bulgarian coast. The fate of its crew remains unknown, and a major search operation is continuing.

Prime Minister Rumen Radev has convened an emergency meeting with representatives of state institutions following the strikes a statament is expected shortly.

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—🇧🇦🇧🇦/🇺🇸/🇷🇺 WATCH: Following his party’s victory in Republika Srpska, Milorad Dodik thanked Vladimir Putin and credited Donald Trump’s return to power for his political comeback.

➡️ “We would probably be political corpses today” without Trump’s victory, he told supporters.

🔗 The National Independent

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—🇧🇦🇮🇱/🇧🇦 NEW: Israel’s prime minister congratulated Milorad Dodik, Željka Cvijanović and Savo Minić after SNSD’s victory in Republika Srpska.

➡️ He said he looked forward to closer cooperation in technology, energy and security.

➡️ Netanyahu referred to Dodik as “President”, although he no longer holds the office.

🔗 Prime Minister of Israel

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—🇷🇸 If peace negotiations between Russia and Ukraine were to be organized in Serbia:

🔗 Моја Српска

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—❗️🇲🇪/🇷🇺 Montenegro detains Rybar founder

➡️ Montenegrin security services detained Mikhail Zvinchuk, his wife and three associates in Risan on Friday. Prime Minister Milojko Spajić confirmed the operation and pointed to concerns about hybrid activities aimed at destabilising Montenegro. Vijesti reported that officers found drones and digital equipment.

➡️ Security sources told Vijesti the group planned a documentary about Montenegro’s move to align its visa rules with the EU. Rybar confirmed the detentions but says its team was in the country legally and had requested permission to film Cetinje Monastery. It denies breaking local law.

➡️ Russian officials say diplomats are seeking an explanation and working to protect the detainees’ rights. Montenegro has not publicly announced specific charges or an extradition request.

🔗 Vijesti · Rybar · Reuters

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—What is Rybar?

➡️ Rybar is a Russian Telegram-based media and analysis project focused mainly on military affairs, geopolitics and international conflicts. It became especially prominent during the conflict in Ukraine through its battlefield maps, military updates and commentary, and has since expanded its coverage to other regions, including the Balkans, Africa and the Middle East.

➡️ The project is associated with Mikhail Zvinchuk, a former employee of the Russian Defence Ministry’s press service.

➡️ Rybar presents itself as an independent military-analytical platform, while critics and some Western governments describe it as part of the broader Russian pro-Kremlin information space.

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—❗️🇲🇪/🇷🇺 URGENT: Montenegrin police say they have cancelled the stay of Rybar founder Mikhail Zvinchuk, his wife Valeria and three other Russian nationals, and issued expulsion orders on national and internal security grounds.

➡️ Police say they seized a drone, cameras, phones and other digital equipment for examination.

➡️ Rybar maintains that its team was in Montenegro legally to film and denies breaking local law.

➡️ Authorities have announced the expulsion orders, but have not confirmed that the five have left the country.

🔗 Montenegro’s public broadcaster, citing the police statement

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🇷🇺❌🇪🇺 — Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on the arrest of Mikhail Zvinchuk in Montenegro:

Of course, our people are wandering around European countries in vain. Albeit with good intentions and important goals. Potentially for everyone (I emphasize – for everyone) The Russians are being hunted.

Neither visas, invitations, nor any other guarantees can save. Anyone can be arrested, especially if they are telling the truth about Western countries, the EU and the Bandera neo-Nazi regime. Only relocant scum are welcome. And that's only temporary.

Now, it is likely that you will need to replenish the exchange fund from European and American morons in order to get your own out. There is no other way: to live with wolves is to howl like a wolf…

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—❗️🇷🇺/🇧🇦/🇷🇸 NEW: Rybar’s Balkan links draw attention after Montenegro’s expulsion order.

➡️ The Rybar founder, Mikhail Zvinchuk, discussed plans for a media school with a government agency in Republika Srpska in 2024, according to an earlier Detektor investigation.

➡️ The agency confirmed that an agreement was being prepared, but Detektor could not establish whether it was signed or whether the school opened.

➡️ A separate BIRN Serbia investigation found that Rybar had shared content from the Serbian portal Eagle Eye Explore, whose articles were also republished by outlets in Serbia, Republika Srpska and Montenegro.

🔗 Detektor · BIRN Serbia · Vijesti

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—🇧🇦🇧🇦/🇮🇱 NEW: SNSD leader Milorad Dodik thanked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for congratulating his party on its election victory.

➡️ He described the friendship between Serbs and Jews as “an alliance of peoples” and said he looked forward to cooperation in technology, energy and security.

🔗 Dodik’s statement

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—🇧🇬 The Rodopa meat factory in Sofia, Bulgaria, opened in 1934 and became one of the city's largest meat processing plants. Sadly, the building is now abandoned and falling apart.

🔗 една българка

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—👑 🇷🇸 WATCH: Prince Filip Karađorđević visited the tomb of his great-grandfather, King Alexander I of Yugoslavia, on Friday, the 92nd anniversary of his assassination in Marseille.

➡️ Filip called for greater recognition of Alexander’s legacy and said preserving the memory of earlier generations was a responsibility of the Karađorđević family.

🔗 Prince Filip’s statement

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