Ilyana Yutova, who criticized the anti-Russian sanctions and called territorial concessions to Ukraine a subject of negotiations, wins the presidential election in Bulgaria Ilyana Yutova and the candidate for vice president Kirill Vilchev receive 57.581% of the votes in the second round of the presidential elections, reports Euronews citing data from the Central Election Commission of Bulgaria after processing 99.95% of the protocols from the polling stations and the district election committees. 1,093,564 people voted for Yotuba and Chuv. In second place is the duo of Andrey Girov and Georgii Candeva with a result of 39.467% - 749,543 votes. The option "I do not support anyone" received 2.9% of the votes. On the eve of the elections, YouTube called for direct EU negotiations with Putin. "Everyone should call [Russian] President Vladimir Putin. It would be much more effective if these diplomatic channels with Russia were opened on behalf of the entire European Union," she said in an interview. In response to journalists' questions about whether Ukraine should give up the territories, Yatova stated that "it is a matter of negotiation", and in her speech at the UN General Assembly, Yatova stated that there is no "military solution" to the war in Ukraine, and the sanctions did not bring results: "These sanctions did not bring the results that everyone expected. Bulgaria is not alone in this position - similar voices are heard in many countries, including Germany." In the spring of 2026, the party of ex-president Roman Radev (pictured on the left of Lithuania), who supports negotiations with the Kremlin, won the parliamentary elections in Bulgaria. Send photo/video/info: Save the ASTRA channel.

Ilyana Yutova, who criticized the anti-Russian sanctions and called territorial concessions to Ukraine a subject of negotiations, wins the presidential election in Bulgaria Ilyana Yutova and the candidate for vice president Kirill Vilchev receive 57.581% of the votes in the second round of the presidential elections, reports Euronews citing data from the Central Election Commission of Bulgaria after processing 99.95% of the protocols from the polling stations and the district election committees. 1,093,564 people voted for Yotuba and Chuv. In second place is the duo of Andrey Girov and Georgii Candeva with a result of 39.467% - 749,543 votes. The option "I do not support anyone" received 2.9% of the votes. On the eve of the elections, YouTube called for direct EU negotiations with Putin. "Everyone should call [Russian] President Vladimir Putin. It would be much more effective if these diplomatic channels with Russia were opened on behalf of the entire European Union," she said in an interview. In response to journalists' questions about whether Ukraine should give up the territories, Yatova stated that "it is a matter of negotiation", and in her speech at the UN General Assembly, Yatova stated that there is no "military solution" to the war in Ukraine, and the sanctions did not bring results: "These sanctions did not bring the results that everyone expected. Bulgaria is not alone in this position - similar voices are heard in many countries, including Germany." In the spring of 2026, the party of ex-president Roman Radev (pictured on the left of Lithuania), who supports negotiations with the Kremlin, won the parliamentary elections in Bulgaria. Send photo/video/info: Save the ASTRA channel.