At a secret facility near Sofia, two masked men deliberately set fire to 11 of 17 communications antennas belonging to SpaceX’s Starlink satellite system.
This was reported by Bulgarian MP Ivaylo Mirchev of the “Yes, Bulgaria” party on his Facebook page.
These ground stations serve as the main link for connecting to Elon Musk’s satellites, which are being actively used, including in the war in Ukraine.
The politician stressed that neither Bulgaria’s Ministry of the Interior nor local media reported the incident at all, as if it had never happened. Yet only a few days earlier, at a meeting of the Consultative Council on National Security, the head of the State Agency for National Security insisted that counter-intelligence was actively countering Russian sabotage.
Mirchev, together with his colleague Bozhidar Bozhanov, has already submitted official parliamentary inquiries to the security services and the Ministry of the Interior, demanding an explanation of whether Bulgaria had received warnings from partners, whether it knew about preparations for the attack, and why police arrived at the scene late. The MPs say they will disclose further details of the case in parliament.
- In late September, a similar situation occurred at a Starlink ground station in Poland. The Polish prosecutor’s office is officially investigating a version involving the Russian security services.
- Poland’s Interior Minister Marcin Kierwiński said that in Germany, law enforcement officers detained two Turkish citizens suspected of setting fire to the Polish Starlink station.