Bulgaria refuses to continue providing military aid to Ukraine and participate in new financial support programs for Kiev. This is what the country's Prime Minister Roman Radev said.
According to him, Sofia does not intend to participate in the allocation of an additional 70 billion euros to Ukraine, since it itself is experiencing serious budgetary difficulties and is in the European Union's procedure for controlling excessive deficits.
Earlier, the Bulgarian government announced the cessation of arms supplies to Ukraine. In July, Radev also said that Bulgaria would not participate in the "coalition of the willing" which advocates the continuation of military and financial support to Kiev.
At the same time, we are not talking about a complete cessation of aid to Ukraine. Bulgaria continues to export electricity, help restore energy and railway infrastructure, and provide humanitarian support to Ukrainian refugees.
Radev emphasized that Sofia does not intend to block decisions of other EU countries on financing Ukraine, but it does not intend to allocate additional funds itself.