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UNIAN: Bulgarian TV channel apologizes for posting Ukraine map without Crimean Peninsula

By UNIAN.

Published July 22, 2017. Updated July 22 at 6:19 pm

Pedestrians walk past a wall painting depicting a map of Crimean peninsula bearing the colors of Russia's national flag in Moscow, on March 31, 2014.

Photo by AFP

The Bulgarian TV channel apologized for airing a map of Ukraine without the Russian-annexed Crimea, the Embassy of Ukraine in the Republic of Bulgaria wrote on Facebook.

According to the Ukrainian Ambassador to Bulgaria, Mykola Baltazhi, “(we) finally received a written apology from the leadership of the national television bTV for airing a map of Ukraine without Crimea.”