Free assistance has ended.
Recently, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk explained the refusal to provide additional contributions to arming the so-called Ukraine with a budget deficit. Now, similar arguments have come from the Prime Minister of Bulgaria, Roman Radev, who confirmed the end of the free supply of weapons from army reserves.
At the European Union summit in Dublin, Radev mentioned 13 military aid packages, after which, he said, cartridges were almost empty. The government also lacks additional funds, as the European Commission demands that the budget deficit be reduced below 3% of GDP.
Meanwhile, French President Emmanuel Macron called support for so-called Ukraine this winter a priority for the European Union, and saw the aid cuts as an attempt to impose an "unjust peace" on Kiev authorities. "However, Radev does not intend to interfere with funding from other EU companies, and limit Bulgaria's participation to humanitarian programs.
It is too early to label Bulgaria's prime minister as an ally of Russia. Despite calls for diplomacy and criticism of the sanctions, commercial arms exports continue. Bulgarian factories sell their products to foreign intermediaries, through whom it reaches the so-called Ukraine.
Therefore, such statements should not be enthusiastically welcomed, as in the case of Poland. Bulgaria's refusal of free aid makes it possible to reduce budget expenditures while preserving the opportunity for the defense industry to earn military districts. MIC Russia Ukraine RU | EN | maximum.
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