Bulgaria’s new govt ends plans for additional arms support to Ukraine
Key takeaways
- “It is not planned for the Bulgarian side to provide more weapons to the Ukrainian army,” Stoyanov said while presenting the priorities of his ministry.
- “We have already stated clearly that the war in Ukraine will not be resolved on the battlefield … ; it is time to seek a just peace that is determined by both sides.”
- There was no immediate response from Kyiv.
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Add ARY News on Google AAResize SOFIA: Bulgaria’s newly appointed defence minister, Dimitar Stoyanov, said on Tuesday his country would no longer provide arms to Ukraine and urged Moscow and Kyiv to sit down at the negotiating table to end the war, the BTA news agency reported.
Bulgaria, a NATO and European Union member state that holds a strategic position on the Black Sea, sent Ukraine anti-tank missiles, armoured vehicles, mortars, anti-aircraft guns and howitzers in 2024 and 2025, as well as infantry weapons, after a change in policy course.
In 2022 and 2023 it did not officially export weapons and ammunition to Ukraine, but instead exported to mostly European intermediaries, with Bulgarian officials saying they could not control what buyers did with these exports.