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Bulgarian authorities are investigating a reported arson attack at a Starlink satellite communications station near Sofia, Prime Minister Rumen Radev said on October 14.
Ivaylo Mirchev, an opposition lawmaker from the Yes, Bulgaria party, revealed two days earlier that two masked men had set fire to 11 of the facility’s 17 antennas over the weekend. He published a video of the incident on Facebook and raised the case in Parliament, where he called for an explanation of the government’s response.
Radev described the investigation as “extremely intensive” and said Bulgarian authorities were working with partner services, without identifying suspects or discussing a possible motive.
Plamen Tonchev, head of Bulgaria’s State Agency for National Security, said the site had been scheduled for expansion, and part of its perimeter fencing had been removed, potentially making it easier for intruders to enter.
The facility, identified as the Plana satellite communications station about 20 kilometers south of Sofia, provides service used by the Ukrainian military.
Starlink has become an important component of Ukraine’s battlefield communications, allowing military personnel to maintain connectivity and coordinate operations. Bulgarian authorities have not disclosed whether the damaged antennas were directly carrying military traffic or whether the fire disrupted Ukrainian operations.
The incident follows an arson attack on a Starlink station in Wola Krobowska, about 40 kilometers south of Warsaw, on September 23.
Two Turkish nationals were arrested in Germany in connection with that arson case, Polish officials said on October 12. A third was reportedly apprehended the next day.
Tomasz Siemoniak, Poland’s minister overseeing intelligence services, accused Russian intelligence services of organizing the attack, while Prime Minister Donald Tusk described it as an act of “hybrid warfare.”
Mirchev cited the Polish case as a parallel to the incident near Sofia. However, Bulgarian authorities have not publicly attributed the fire to Russia, and no evidence has established that the two attacks were coordinated.
The incidents have drawn attention to the vulnerability of ground infrastructure supporting a satellite network that has become strategically important to Ukraine during its conflict with Russia.
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the international antifascist resistance against nazism is finally waking up. specially in germany they should start being more active. i hope more sabotage will start until nazi kiev falls.
its probably just locals who dont want to be pulled into a war.
like zelensky some european leaders are either very stupid or becoming very wealthy as they offer their citizens as meat for the zionist expansion of control over the world. the arsonists should be rewarded in the current political climate.
someone must be caught and blamed. should we believe anything media reports ? real resistance can come from all directions.
yes ! from the retired, do not feed any politicians, police, brokers 😂 but have a nice fireplace 🥰
the ukraine post 2014 regime’s long overdue slide into oblivion is on its way.
no hits on microsoft data centers yet ? there should be a end to the stupidity, for example by mass murder in the hospitals, people which demands to be payed in zeros, and “contact sites” which are only to force you to not do what the “president” does 😂 its fascism, resurrection of the noblesse. of course from the island of death and destruction, where the slaves from europe was used as the germans in nazi germany.
im allways amused about the world believing a country that did neigher see the orange revolution nor the maidan comming, which was unable to prevent the us and uk turning a brothernation into a nation that defines itself through the eternal hatred of everything russian is able to do all these hybrid warfare and other kind attacks. i think the truth is the danger and skill of the fsb or kgb before was allways just western propaganda.