Bulgaria can provide Ukraine with about a hundred units of Soviet armored vehicles: the terms have been announced
Bulgaria plans to start supplying Ukraine with about 100 units of Soviet-style armored vehicles this fall.
This was announced by Bulgarian Defense Minister Todor Tagarev at a briefing.
The provision of equipment is slowed down by the storage of vehicles in the warehouses of the Bulgarian Ministry of Internal Affairs. To start the process, a contract must be signed between the Ministry and the Ukrainian Defense Ministry, and then the agreement must be approved by the Bulgarian parliament.
“As soon as the parliament returns to its sessions in September, I believe that this will be one of the priority tasks, and by the end of September or early October we will have the ratification of this agreement. And I think that then the transfer can begin,” Tagarev said.
What preceded it?
During the Ukrainian president’s visit to Bulgaria in July, Prime Minister Nikolay Denkov agreed to transfer about 100 armored personnel carriers from the Bulgarian Interior Ministry’s stockpile to Ukraine. These vehicles have never been used because the country’s military personnel have not been trained in this area. The armored vehicles are now just sitting in warehouses and are a burden for Bulgaria, Denkov said.
