{"id":1529,"date":"2026-10-18T21:09:40","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T18:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/5000.news\/stoyanov-bnt-nato-aviatsiya-bulgaria-18-oktomvri-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-10-18T21:14:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T18:14:17","slug":"stoyanov-bnt-nato-aviatsiya-bulgaria-18-oktomvri-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/5000.news\/en\/stoyanov-bnt-nato-aviatsiya-bulgaria-18-oktomvri-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Stoyanov tells BNT: Allied aircraft expected to support Bulgaria's defence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defence Minister Dimitar Stoyanov told BNT on 18 October that he expects aircraft from a NATO member state to be present in Bulgaria. He said allied forces would support the defence of the country's territory and waters.<\/p>\n<p>Specific forces and equipment are expected to be clarified next week. This is expected support, not confirmation that aircraft have arrived.<\/p>\n<p>Archive illustration: the Black Sea at Byala, Bulgaria, 18 August 2014. Alexandru Panoiu \/ Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0. It does not show allied aircraft. Resized and cropped to 1200\u00d7675 px. <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Byala,_view_towards_the_sea_down_Ulitza_Chernomorska_(APXZ0186_1PP)_(15160201426).jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Photo source<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Licence<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Source<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bntnews.bg\/news\/sayuznicheski-sili-na-nato-shte-podpomognat-otbranata-na-teritoriyata-i-akvatoriyata-na-balgariya-1417653news.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BNT \u2014 defence minister's statements on 18 October<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The specific forces and equipment are expected to be clarified next week.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1169,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,37],"tags":[16,41],"class_list":["post-1529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bulgaria","category-politika","tag-aktualno","tag-aktsenti-ot-denya"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/5000.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/5000.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/5000.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/5000.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/5000.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1529"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/5000.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1534,"href":"https:\/\/5000.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529\/revisions\/1534"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/5000.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/5000.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/5000.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/5000.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}