"We have already given enough" : Bulgaria ends deliveries of weapons from its public stocks to Ukraine

Bulgaria will no longer supply weapons from its public military stocks to Ukraine, the Prime Minister of this NATO and European Union member country, Rumen Radev, announced on Wednesday June 10.

At the head of the government after his party’s victory in the legislative elections in May, Rumen Radev is pleading for dialogue with Russia, at war with kyiv since 2022. “We have already given enough, while our country continues to suffer socio-economic losses due to this bloody war”he declared to the press. He said to himself “convinced that a peaceful solution cannot be achieved by military means”.

Bulgaria has supplied Ukraine with weapons from its military stocks, including air defense systems and surface-to-air missiles, financed by the European mechanism of the European Peace Facility. Bulgarian factories producing ammunition compatible with Soviet-era weapons used by the Ukrainian army have boomed since the start of the war. Their products are not sold directly to Ukraine but to EU countries, which then transfer them.