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Bulgaria, an EU member state, signaled that it will allow Russian President Vladimir Putin to fly through its airspace to Budapest, where he will meet with US President Donald Trump.
"If efforts are made to achieve peace, and if the condition for this is that there is a meeting, then it is logical to enable this meeting to take place as it should," Bulgarian Foreign Minister Georg Georgiev said, according to a report by state radio in Sofia on the sidelines of the EU Council of Ministers meeting in Luxembourg.
A possible flight route from Moscow to Budapest passes over the Black Sea, over Bulgaria and Serbia. Bulgaria's airspace as an EU member state after the start of Russia's offensive war in Ukraine is closed to Russian aircraft. Other possible routes are north through Belarus and Poland or the Baltic Sea, Germany and the Czech Republic.
Lavrov and Rubio prepare for the presidents' meeting
Russian and US Foreign Ministers Sergey Lavrov and Marco Rubio have spoken by phone to prepare for a possible meeting of the presidents regarding the war in Ukraine. This was announced by the Foreign Ministries in Moscow and Washington. According to a statement from Moscow, concrete steps were discussed to implement what was agreed upon during the phone call last Thursday (16.10.2025) between Presidents Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump.
A spokesman for Rubio said in Washington that the specific goal is a "sustainable resolution to the Russian-Ukrainian war," as President Trump seeks. After the phone call with Putin, Trump said he would soon meet with the Kremlin leader in the Hungarian capital, Budapest. A date has not yet been set. A meeting of foreign ministers is planned in advance to prepare for the second Trump-Putin summit. The two presidents met for the first time in mid-August in the US state of Alaska./ DW
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