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Bulgaria is drafting new legislation that will allow it to seize control of an important oil refinery belonging to Russia's sanctioned oil giant Lukoil. The Burgas refinery is the only one of its kind in Bulgaria and was a vital party of Lukoil's foreign business empire. The company is now facing US sanctions over Russia's war on Ukraine. Earlier, Russian president Vladimir Putin ordered preparations for nuclear weapons testing after president Donald Trump announced last week that the US would be running its first tests in over three decades. Trump announced last week that the US would breach a global moratorium on testing nuclear weapons, claiming rivals such as China and Russia were already doing the same in secret, but did not offer more details. At the same meeting on Wednesday, Putin ordered the heightened defence of Russia's oil refineries from Ukrainian drone attacks, signing a new law deploying millions of reservists to the task. And on the battlefield, Russia claimed its troops were advancing inside the key city of Pokrovsk, where the Ukrainian army said its units were battling hard to avoid being encircled by Moscow's forces.
