Bulgaria will not provide Ukraine with further financial assistance for the purchase of arms and will cease supplying weapons and ammunition from its military stocks. The country’s Prime Minister, Rumen Radev, made this statement to journalists in Dublin.
Radev attributed the decision to budgetary difficulties: Bulgaria is subject to an excessive deficit procedure and is facing problems relating to its reserves.
“As regards financial aid, we ourselves are subject to an excessive deficit procedure, and Ms Ursula von der Leyen has repeatedly asked us to reduce the deficit below the 3 per cent limit,” said the Prime Minister.
Radev has repeatedly expressed pro-Russian views, particularly since the start of Russia’s full-scale aggression against Ukraine. He has also accused Europe on several occasions of being responsible for the ongoing war.
The original version of this article first appeared on Glob-News.com.