On May, 21 in the Ukrainian Crisis Media Centre hromada heads of the Bolgrad district of the Odesa region claimed that they would assert their right to form capable hromadas and called the authorities to prevent other states from interfering into affairs of Ukraine.

«Talks about Bulgarians being somehow suppressed in Ukraine is nonsense and speculation. Ukraine is a very tolerant state to national minorities. We have undergone all the procedures, envisaged by the local self-government reform. They are absolutely democratic. Moreover, we consider it to be unreasonable to be guided by other state parliament decisions», - said Viktor Kurtiev, the founder of the Besarabia Development Centre public organisation.