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The Russian Federation has declared Lieutenant Colonel Mitko Borisov, deputy military attaché of the Bulgarian diplomatic mission in Moscow, persona non grata, the Russian Foreign Ministry announced.
The Foreign Ministry in Sofia confirmed that the Bulgarian ambassador to Moscow, Atanas Krastin, was invited to the Russian Foreign Ministry on Monday. There, in a protocol meeting, a note declaring persona non grata was given to a Bulgarian diplomat from the embassy that he had to leave the country in 72 hours.
The measure is reciprocal to the actions of the Bulgarian side, which on December 18 declared a Russian diplomat accredited in Sofia persona non grata for actions incompatible with his condition, constituting a crime under the Penal Code.
Later, SANS caught another spy in the Russian embassy and the special prosecutor’s office opened a case for espionage. According to the Bulgarian authorities, the spy was the military attaché, Colonel Vasiliy Sazanovich, who was interested in the military exercises taking place on Bulgarian territory. In the period from 2017 to the present, another citizen of the Russian Federation has carried out intelligence activities in which military information has been collected, including the number of US troops stationed on the territory of Bulgaria during the exercise. “The information, which was an official and state secret, was to be passed on to Russian military intelligence in Moscow,” the prosecutor’s office said in a statement at the time. Sazanovich turned out to be the sixth Russian diplomat to be declared persona non grata by the Bulgarian authorities in the past year and a half.
The Russian Federation declared the move unfounded and threatened retaliation.
According to the announcement by the Bulgarian Foreign Ministry on Monday, Mitko Borisov will meet the deadline for him to leave Russia, which begins on December 28 at 2 p.m. Moscow time (1 p.m. Bulgarian time).
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