"The expelled diplomats have become so many that they can't surprise me," said the Bulgarian diplomat and former ambassador of our country to Moscow Ilian Vassilev in the studio of "Awake" on Nova TV.

"When Borissov had to balance the Turkish Stream, he expelled diplomats," Vassilev recalled.

According to him, the current situation in Bulgaria is similar.

"It simply came to our notice then.

The main thing is that Bulgaria does not provide military equipment to Ukraine.

This is ruining the image of Bulgaria, so we are prosecuting diplomats, "Vassilev said.

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According to Vassilev, a lawsuit or verdict should be filed against the diplomats.

"Is there a spy from the Bulgarians who has reached a sentence - no. 

From the point of view of modern espionage, if after the expulsion of a diplomat, a lawsuit or a verdict is filed, then we can believe it, ”Vassilev said.

The former ambassador explained that the job of the Russian embassy in Bulgaria at the moment is to find out whether Bulgaria will continue to buy gas and oil, and whether it will export military equipment to Ukraine. 

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According to him, however, at the moment Russian diplomats in our country have an unspoken embargo on meetings and cannot access this information, so a person with double cover is needed.

"Everything has already been covered in SANS.

And in Russia, these services are under different subordination so that senior management can receive information from different sources and these services can compete.

There is no such thing in our country, "Vassilev explained.

"As Borissov used to do with Turkish Stream, now the special prosecutor's office is running ahead and stealing the laurels of expelling 1-2 diplomas," he said.

Ilian Vasile also commented on the situation with Russian Ambassador Eleonora Mitrofanova.

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"The Bulgarian government has tried to solve the problems through diplomacy in order to save it from expulsion.

Expelling an ambassador is not like expelling a diplomat.

Russia is not moving now because we do not have so many diplomats in Moscow.

However, Mitrofanova remains with us at this stage, so there will probably be an expulsion, ”Vassilev said.