Bulgaria Wary as Russia Steps Up Military Flights Over Black Sea

Bulgaria has put on high alert or deployed its air force about 30 times in two months in response to a recent spike in Russian military aircraft flying near its aerial borders on the Black Sea, its defense minister said on Tuesday. Both the West and Russia have carried out a series of military drills as a show of force in the worsening stand-off over Russia's annexation of Crimea, which has sparked retaliatory sanctions from Washington and Brussels. NATO said it was...

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