Bulgaria approves a new military aid package for Ukraine

SOFIA, June 27 (DPA/EP) –

The Government of Bulgaria has announced a new military aid package for Ukraine on Monday, although it has not provided more details about it.

Bulgarian Prime Minister Nikolai Denkov’s cabinet will send Ukraine “military technology” in proportions similar to the package sent at the end of December, according to a government statement.

The composition of said package was classified information, although government sources indicated that it consisted of light weapons and ammunition.

The country, a member of NATO but which maintains cultural and economic ties with Russia, was until December one of the two countries of the European Union that had not yet sent weapons to Ukraine since the conflict began.

In fact, Bulgaria refused in March to participate in the joint purchase plan agreed upon by several member states of the European Union in order to supply 155-millimeter caliber ammunition to Ukraine, as it alleged that the Bulgarian Army does not have these projectiles nor the uses.