Posted on 11/19/2022 2:07:35 PM PST by TigerLikesRoosterNew
Bulgaria doesn’t send weapons to Ukraine but arms industry flourishes
By Antonia Kotseva and Krassen Nikolov | EURACTIV.bg
Oct 31, 2022
While Bulgaria and Hungary are the only NATO and EU countries that officially refuse to send military aid to Ukraine, Bulgaria was revealed to be one of the biggest indirect suppliers to the war-torn country, selling a record amount of weapons since the start of the war.
Experts estimate that Bulgaria has so far supplied at least €1 billion of weapons and ammunition to Ukraine via brokers.
The Bulgarian arms business has always profited well from conflicts in areas that traditionally used Soviet weapons systems. The country’s arms enterprises produce ammunition for Soviet weapons and other products based on them, which in most cases, are of great quality and have higher prices on international markets.
The Bulgarian arms industry now turns out to be one of the largest sources of Soviet-standard ammunition for the Ukrainian army, but this is a political problem.
In the current parliament there are three forces opposed to Bulgaria sending weapons to Ukraine: the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP), the openly pro-Russian party Vazrazhdane, and to a lesser degree, the party Bulgarian Rise of former caretaker prime minister Stefan Yanev.
The latter has recently accepted sending old Soviet weaponry under the condition that the country receives in exchange modern NATO weapons. In the 240-seat parliament, BSP has 25 MPs, Vazrazhdane has 27, and Bulgarian Rise, the smallest force, has 12.
Surveys show that nearly 30% of Bulgarians directly support Russia in the conflict, and half have strong pro-Russian sentiments, a remnant of the totalitarian communist regime. Furthermore, some 70% of the population believe that sending weapons puts Bulgaria directly in the conflict.
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The corrupt, criminal Ukies can buy whatever they want with US Taxpayer Monies...
The corrupt, criminal Ukies can buy whatever they want with US Taxpayer Monies...
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No, they pocket it and have been caught selling off western equipment to the black markets.
Meanwhile the West is slowing down military weapons, Italy and two other EU nations stated they will no longer send weapons- the Western great weapons give away is cracking, as is the EU alliance, just ask Hungary, Italy and a few other EU nations….tick…tock….Zelensky’s welfare queen nation of Ukraine days are clearly numbered….when our US Gen Miley is suggesting negotiations, probably time to get negotiating.
“Meloni has repeatedly committed to backing Kyiv and claimed the flow of arms will continue uninterrupted.”
“Italy preps new Ukraine arms shipment. Is SAMP/T air defense included?
By Tom Kington Thursday, Nov 10
https://www.defensenews.com/global/europe/2022/11/10/italy-preps-new-ukraine-arms-shipment-is-sampt-air-defense-included/
Russians tried to kill Bulgarian arms dealer Emilian Gebrev and blew up a Bulgarian ammo storage site in 2015
Three Russian men charged with poisoning Bulgarian arms dealer
Attack on Emilian Gebrev being investigated for possible links with Sergei Skripal poisoning
The three Russians were charged with trying to kill the arms factory owner Emilian Gebrev and two other Bulgarians in Sofia between 28 April and 4 May 2015 by “intoxication with an unidentified organophosphorus substance,” in a way that was “dangerous to the lives of many”.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/21/three-russian-men-charged-with-poisoning-bulgarian-arms-dealer-emilian-gebrev
As I’ve been saying for months. In particular they have been playing a large part in solving the Ukrainian artillery ammo problem.
Exactly so. If the corrupt, criminal Russians can buy up Belorussian and North Korean ammo stocks then the Ukrainians can do the same from Eastern Europe. This all is in fact a bargain for the US. They get a lot more bang for the buck from Bulgaria. Literally.
Details on Ukrainian black market arms dealing please.
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