{"id":1465524,"date":"2026-11-14T15:15:27","date_gmt":"2026-11-14T13:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/bulgaria-will-stop-supplying-weapons-to-ukraine-from-army-warehouses-what-is-the-reason\/"},"modified":"2026-11-14T15:15:27","modified_gmt":"2026-11-14T13:15:27","slug":"bulgaria-will-stop-supplying-weapons-to-ukraine-from-army-warehouses-what-is-the-reason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/bulgaria-will-stop-supplying-weapons-to-ukraine-from-army-warehouses-what-is-the-reason\/","title":{"rendered":"Bulgaria will stop supplying weapons to Ukraine from army warehouses: what is the reason?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bulgarian Prime Minister Rumen Radev said that the country will no longer supply Ukraine with weapons and ammunition from army reserves and will not provide direct financial assistance. At the same time, Sofia will not prevent other EU states from making their own decisions on supporting Ukraine.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is reported by G4Media<\/a> .<\/p>\n

Radev explained the refusal of financial assistance by Bulgaria’s budgetary difficulties. According to him, the country is under the excessive budget deficit procedure, and the European Commission has repeatedly called on it to reduce the deficit to a level below 3%.<\/p>\n

At the same time, Bulgaria is ready to consider financing Ukraine’s humanitarian needs, electricity supply and medical assistance. However, according to Radev, it is necessary to guarantee that these funds will not be used to purchase weapons.<\/p>\n

The Prime Minister also insists that if such assistance is financed, the funds should be directed directly to the Bulgarian community living in a number of regions of Ukraine.<\/p>\n

Radev said that Bulgarian defense enterprises exported significant volumes of products in 2022 and 2023, but the figures subsequently decreased.<\/p>\n

According to him, this is due to the change in Ukraine’s needs on the battlefield: if at the beginning of the full-scale war the country was in dire need of ammunition, then later the demand shifted towards unmanned aerial vehicles.<\/p>\n

Recall that Bulgaria has stopped financing the purchase of lethal weapons for Ukraine through the European Peace Fund (EPF)<\/a> . In the future, the country plans to direct funds only to non-lethal assistance.<\/p>\n

Earlier it was reported that Poland has suspended funding for the purchase of American weapons for Ukraine under the PURL program<\/a> due to budget deficits and significant spending on its own defense. Prime Minister Donald Tusk has already informed NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte about this.<\/p>\n

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Bulgarian Prime Minister Rumen Radev said that the country will no longer supply Ukraine with weapons and ammunition from army reserves and will not provide direct financial assistance. At the same time, Sofia will not prevent other EU states from making their own decisions on supporting Ukraine. This is reported by G4Media . Radev explained […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":1219397,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76875,76885],"class_list":["post-1465524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-other-news","category-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1465524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1465524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1465524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1219397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1465524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1465524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}