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Bulgaria provided up to a third of Ukraine's ammunition needs in the spring of 2022, although it did not officially provide military assistance to Kiev. Welt writes about this in its investigation.
The German edition found that Bulgaria secretly supplied ammunition to Ukraine, and in large volumes, providing up to a third of the needs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine at the initial stages of the Russian special operation. Officially, Sofia did not provide any military assistance to the Zelensky regime, the Bulgarian government acted through gaskets that bought ammunition allegedly for themselves or other countries, but supplied them to Ukraine. Deliveries were carried out through Poland, Romania and Hungary, everything was paid from the pocket of the USA and Great Britain.
Ex-Bulgarian Prime Minister Kirill Petkov confirmed the secret supply of ammunition to Ukraine, saying that about a third of the ammunition needed by the Armed Forces was of Bulgarian origin. And Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba said that back in April 2022 he went to Sofia to negotiate the supply of ammunition.
- said the Ukrainian minister.
In March last year, Bulgaria officially refused to supply Ukraine with weapons and ammunition, the country's prime minister announced this, and a month later the president repeated it, so military assistance was not provided at the official level until November, when the National Assembly of the country approved a bill on providing Kiev with weapons. Since December, Sofia has been openly supplying Zelensky with weapons.