#Bulgaria: According to tonight's exit polls, the centre-right GERB-led list wins the most votes in today's national parliament election.

However, it is the smallest vote share a winner of the plurality ever received (since democratisation in 1990).

➤ http://europeelects.eu/bulgaria

#Bulgaria: Tonight's Alpha Research exit poll shows that Slavi Trifonov's centrist ITN (*) was especially successful among voters aged 18-30 years.

In this age group, the party (that was only founded in 2020) even received a plurality of votes.

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#Bulgaria: Tonight's Alpha Research exit poll shows that the centre-left BSP (S&D)-led list wins a plurality among voters aged 60+ years.

The new ITN party (*) performed weaker in this age group than in the general population. It won a plurality among the voters aged 18-31 years.

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#Bulgaria, Gallup International exit poll:

Share of women among the party's electorate

ISMV-EPP|G/EFA: 65%
DB-EPP|G/EFA: 57%
GERB-EPP: 53%
BSP-S&D: 53%
DPS-RE: 51%
VMRO-ECR: 47%
ITN-*: 42%

Note: Two newcomer lists, ISMV and ITN, were disproportionally supported by one gender.

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#Bulgaria: Tonight's Gallup International exit poll shows that the centrist DB (G/EFA/EPP) list wins a plurality among voters in the capital city Sofia.

The new ITN party (*) won only 1% vote among the voters in Sofia, but 15% countrywide.

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#Bulgaria, Gallup International exit poll (75% of votes counted in parallel counting):

GERB/SDS-EPP: 25.7% (-7.8)
ITN-*: 16.2% (new)
BSPzB-S&D: 15.1% (-12.1)
DPS-RE: 11.9% (+3.0)
DB-G/EFA|EPP: 9.1% (+3.7)
ISMV-G/EFA|EPP: 4.5% (new)
…

Threshold: 4%

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#Russia #Ukraine 🇷🇺🇺🇦: #Chechen Forces under #Kadyrov released a video of captured weapons from Ukrainian Forces in #Gostomel (#Hostomel), #Kyiv.

The weapons appear to be Bulgarian DRTG-73 single-shot anti-tank weapons —originally supplied by #Bulgaria to Ukrainian NG.

https://twitter.com/war_noir/status/1497622581108559873

#Russia / #Ukraine 🇷🇺🇺🇦: A new photo posted by the #Ukrainian combatants shows several 82mm HE 82M mortar bombs, made by #Bulgaria 🇧🇬.

These appear to be supplied rather recently —considering the bombs and AF611 fuzes are produced in 2023.

https://twitter.com/war_noir/status/1629223425838313478

#Russia / #Ukraine 🇷🇺🇺🇦: A rather recent video posted by #Ukrainian combatants.

The video shows 80mm Arsenal ARS-8KOM unguided aviation rockets, produced & supplied by #Bulgaria 🇧🇬.

https://twitter.com/war_noir/status/1650291222253129728

#Syria 🇸🇾: #Turkistan Islamic Party (#Uyghur sub-group of #HTS) released a video of their attack on SyAA position in Sahl Al-Ghab, #Hama.

Militants used 73mm Arsenal ATGL-H1/3 recoilless rifle with RHEF-9MA HE-FRAG AP projectile.
The weapon & ammo were made by #Bulgaria 🇧🇬.

https://twitter.com/war_noir/status/1652351051184341044

#France 🇫🇷: A very rare weapon! has appeared on the French black market in #Limoges recently:

5.45x39mm #Bulgaria-made 🇧🇬 Arsenal AK-74 assault rifle in clean condition with 7N6-pattern ammo is on sale for €5200.

5.45 AKs are extremely rare in #EU 🇪🇺 compared to 7.62 rifles.

https://twitter.com/war_noir/status/1750275065218838894

#Russia / #Ukraine 🇷🇺🇺🇦: #Russian Forces captured weapons & ammo from "Russian Volunteer Corps" (defected Russian unit of #Ukrainian Forces) in #Belgorod.

RBG-6 grenade launchers (from #Croatia 🇭🇷), Pansarskott m/86 anti-tank weapon (from #Sweden 🇸🇪), FN Minimi machine gun, M67 grenades (from #USA 🇺🇸), GHO-1 grenades (from #Bulgaria 🇧🇬) and more can be seen.

https://twitter.com/war_noir/status/1771988420199432691

#Syria / #Albania 🇸🇾🇦🇱: A new photo posted by the militant group "Xhemati Alban" in #Idlib —#Albanian sub-group of Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (#HTS).

The militant in the photo can be seen with a 73mm SPG-9M pattern recoilless rifle and #Bulgaria-made 🇧🇬 RHEF-9MA projectile.

https://twitter.com/war_noir/status/1777641134010892639