VUKOVAR VUKOVAR, May 5 (Hina) - Bulgarian Vice President Angel Marin on Wednesday laid a wreath at the Bulgarian military cemetery in the eastern Croatian city of Vukovar on the occasion of St. George's Day, which is celebrated in
Bulgaria according to the Julian calendar and which is also the Day of the Bulgarian Armed Forces.
VUKOVAR, May 5 (Hina) - Bulgarian Vice President Angel Marin on
Wednesday laid a wreath at the Bulgarian military cemetery in the
eastern Croatian city of Vukovar on the occasion of St. George's Day,
which is celebrated in Bulgaria according to the Julian calendar and
which is also the Day of the Bulgarian Armed Forces.#L#
According to figures reported by the Bulgarian community in Croatia,
1,056 Bulgarian soldiers killed in the spring of 1945 during the
breakthrough of the front in Srijem were buried in Vukovar.
Present at today's wreath-laying ceremony were members of the military
and diplomatic corps in Croatia, local authorities, ethnic Bulgarian
representatives and Bulgaria's ambassadors to Croatia and
Bosnia-Herzegovina, Viktor Vlkov and Ljupce Troharov.
On behalf of the Croatian Defence Ministry and Armed Forces,
Brigadier-General Zvonko Peternel paid tribute to the soldiers killed
in WWII. He said that today's commemoration of Bulgarian victims of
the anti-fascist struggle bore witness to connections between Bulgaria
and Croatia in that struggle.
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