Ivaylo Mirchev, Member of the Bulgarian National Assembly, reported that The United States added a new $200 million today towards over $100 million donated to the Czech Republic as compensation for Prague giving Ukraine its old Soviet weaponry.
He informed that United States also provided $200 million to Slovakia and $300 million to Poland. Countries providing their outdated Soviet weapons to Kyiv in its fight against the Russian occupier are upgrading their armies with new Western equipment.
Mirchev stressed that at the bottom is Bulgaria, which has become the largest warehouse of Soviet weapons in Europe and provides almost nothing to Ukraine.
According to him, the responsibility lies with the new head of the Soviet Weapons Museum – Rumen Radev. The president wants Bulgaria to keep military equipment that is morally obsolete, with no possibility for modernization.
He charged President Radev with acting against the will of the parliament by refusing to send arms to Ukraine to help that nation fend off Russian aggression.
He claims that while other EU nations are replacing their outdated Soviet-made weaponry with contemporary, high-tech ones, Bulgaria is still using its outdated Soviet-made equipment. Mirchev requests that the president of Bulgaria hand over Soviet-made weapons to Ukraine in return for western gear.
He said, “The rest of Eastern European countries will clear their stockpiles of Soviet weapons, be compensated with billions of dollars and have modern Western aircraft and tanks. And in Bulgaria, the president, declaring himself against the parliament’s decision, stops not just aid to Ukraine, but the modernization of our army, refusing the US proposal”.
Mirchev declared that Radev is currently working against the modernization of the army and the interest of Bulgaria. He called the Bulgarian president a Putinophile who refused to unite with the EU and The US to end unnecessary Russian aggression.