Bulgaria on Friday stopped oil imports from Russia as part of the European Union’s embargo over Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, the Bulgarian online news outlet Novinitereported on Friday. In late 2022, the EU granted Bulgaria — which is a member of the bloc — a two-year exemption from the embargo on Russian crude, which was initially set to last until the end of 2024. However, Bulgaria’s parliament voted in December to stop all imports of Russian crude oil starting this month, according to Novinite. The Balkan country’s plan for cutting off Russian-supplied oil envisioned a 50% reduction of imp…