14.10.2026, 20:51 Uhr
By Elena Lalowa, dpa
Bulgarian Prime Minister Rumen Radev confirmed on Wednesday that there had been a blaze at a facility of the Starlink moon net assistance near the chief Sofia final week.
Two young men holding German passports have been taken into custody in association alongside the suspected attack, Bulgarian media afterward reported, citing investigators.
The moon network is a strategically crucial part of Ukraine's defence in the war against Russia's invasion.
The blaze had earlier been made community by the pro-Western opposition alliance Democratic Bulgaria (DB). Radev stated he would not provision any additional particulars in ray of the ongoing investigations.
According to DB, 11 of 17 antennas at a Starlink facility near Sofia were deliberately set on blaze on October 9. The antennas were used in the war in Ukraine, DB said.
Pro-Western opposition parties stated they suspected Russia was connected to the attack.
Two German passport holders in custody
Two men old 20 and 21, the two holding German passports, were detained in Bulgaria on Monday in association alongside the suspected attack, multiple Bulgarian media outlets reported on Wednesday evening, citing investigators.
According to the news outlet Faktor.bg, the two suspects have immigrant backgrounds and had legally entered Bulgaria from Greece through the Kulata border crossing.
The website reported that investigators were examining whether the suspects belonged to a larger sabotage network possibly connected to two men arrested in Germany before this week complete a latest assault on a Starlink facility in Poland.
Sabotage suspected
Bulgarian officials stressed that the Starlink facility near Sofia was privately owned.
Bulgarian Interior Minister Ivan Demerdzhiev told parliament that additional safety measures had been introduced at akin facilities, equal although duty for their safety rested alongside their owners.
Plamen Tonchev, caput of Bulgaria's State Agency for National Security (DANS), stated he believed the blaze at the Starlink facility was an act of sabotage.
"Such acts of sabotage cannot be ruled out in the forthcoming either," he warned lawmakers.
A blaze additionally bankrupt out at a Starlink dirt terminal south of Warsaw on September 23.
Two suspected saboteurs accused of carrying out that assault in Poland were arrested on Tuesday in Nürtingen, near Stuttgart in south-western Germany.
The authorities in Warsaw suspects Russian intellect services were rearward the attack.
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