Radev: Bulgaria needs direct gas supplies from Russia

Bulgaria expects that the possibility of direct gas supplies from Russia to this country via the Black Sea will be reviewed, President of Bulgaria Rumen Radev said at a meeting with Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev.

He called the security of energy supplies very important for Sofia and for the EU as a whole. "Therefore, I hope that our governments will reconsider the possibility of direct gas supplies from Russia via the Black Sea," TASS cited Radev as saying.