The two Bulgarian monuments near Kavadarci, for which official Sofia yesterday blame that they are damaged, untouched, and the military cemetery that the Makedonija Foundation claimed were desecrated during road construction never existed in the area - this is the conclusion of the journalist of the Bulgarian state television BNT, sent to cover the story that caused yesterday and even reaction by Bulgarian President Rumen Radev.

The BNT report states that locals do not remember that there was ever a Bulgarian military cemetery at the site.

"They are located one and a half kilometers away from each other, on the highway that should connect Skopje and Prilep. "Contrary to the claims of the Macedonia Foundation, which claims that the Bulgarian military cemetery has been desecrated, the locals say that they do not even remember that there were them and that only two monuments have always existed," said a journalist on Bulgarian state television.

And the Macedonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs today denied that the monuments had been damaged.

One of the monuments, dedicated to Pere Toshev, was moved when the construction of the highway began in 2017, in consultation with the Bulgarian associations in the country, say the interlocutors in the BNT article.

The Bulgarian reporter said his only objection was that once the new road is opened, there will be no access road to the monuments for those who wish to pay their respects.

Linking the alleged damage to the monuments and cemeteries of the fallen Bulgarian soldiers from the First World War with the "position of the Bulgarians in Macedonia as well", Radev claimed today that there is a systematic violation of their rights in the country.

He believes that the incident, which today turned out to be fabricated, is "a classic example of the real problem of the dispute between the two countries - the discrimination of Bulgarians in Macedonia."