The Bulgarian side appears to be leveraging statements about halting the sale of two nuclear reactor vessels to Ukraine as a strategy to drive up the price, according to Oleksiy Kucherenko, First Deputy Chair of the Verkhovna Rada's Energy Committee. "The Bulgarians are simply trying to raise the price. I get the sense they've realized that under current conditions, this is a valuable asset. And you probably saw reports a few days ago saying that the price is no longer $600 million but around $