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Ukrainian extremists reportedly kill conscripts

LUGANSK -- A spokesman for people’s militia in the self-proclaimed Lugansk People’s Republic has claimed that Ukraine’s Right Sector militants shot 30 conscript soldiers.

According to Ostap Cherny, they were killed for laying down arms and defecting to the local civilians, Itar-Tass reported.

Nearly 212 000 Bulgarian citizens have gun permits, said Chief Prosecutor Sotir Tsatsarov. 

The total number of registered firearms is 340 000 units, shows the checkup, following the incident with the mentally unstable man in Lyaskovets who killed one police officer during the operation for disarming him. 

A day of mourning was held in Bosnia on Tuesday for at least 20 deaths caused by the floods that have submerged a significant part of central, eastern and northern areas.

KRALJEVO - The West Morava River and torrential rivers and streams in the Kraljevo region, central Serbia, have receded back into their beds, leaving behind more than one thousand destroyed houses, and the flooding waters have washed away or damaged 12 bridges, whose replacement with pontoon constructions is underway.

Prime minister: Whole town may have to be evacuated

BELGRADE -- PM Aleksandar Vučić was in the Belgrade municipality of Obrenovac on Friday where he said that the whole flood-stricken town will have to be evacuated.

Obrenovac is currently the most endangered location in Serbia, which has been affected by floods caused by record rainfall this week.

The referendum in Ukraine's southeastern Luhansk region on declaring independence from Kiev has allegedly attracted voter turnout of over 75% in some places.

Thailand's Constitutional Court has ordered Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra to step down over abuse of powers.

BELGRADE - Establishment of a Kosovo army would increase the lack of security for Serbs and other non-Albanian communities because it would, in fact, be a successor of the terrorist "Kosovo Liberation Army" (KLA), Milovan Drecun, the former chairman of the Serbian parliamentary committee on Kosovo-Metohija, said on Tuesday.

On May 6, Bulgaria celebrates the day of St. George the Victorious as well as the day of its army.

May 6 was officially pronounced as the Day of the Bulgarian Army on January 9, 1880, shortly after the establishment of the country's military with a decree of Knyaz Alexander Battenberg.

"Serbs in Kosovo could also form their army"

BELGRADE -- If armed forces of Kosovo were to be created, the Kosovo Serbs could form their own army, Milovan Drecun has been quoted as saying.

Drecun is an MP from the ranks of the ruling SNS party who chaired the Committee on Kosovo and Metohija in the previous parliament.