With its military aid to Ukraine, Bulgaria is getting rid of Soviet-era weapons from the 1960s and 1970s. It is amazing that these armored vehicles produced 50 years ago are still in working condition.
The Bulgarian parliament also voted in favor of supplying Ukraine with missiles of various types intended to bolster Ukraine’s air defense capabilities.
Military experts said the missiles, which are either defective or redundant, cannot be repaired in Bulgaria, and Ukraine needs to fix them or use them for spare parts.
In July, Bulgarian MPs decided to provide 100 armoured vehicles from the reserve of the Ministry of Interior. The armoured personnel carriers, produced in the 1960s and 1970s, were acquired by Bulgaria’s communist-era Interior Military Forces – today’s Gendarmerie. They have never been used and are no longer needed by the interior ministry.
Bulgaria’s President Rumen Radev on December 4 vetoed parliament’s decision to provide 100 armoured vehicles to Ukraine, claiming that ...
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