EU High Representative for Foreign Policy Josep Borel sent a letter to the Bulgarian Minister of Defense Dimitar Stoyanov asking our country to provide ammunition for Ukraine.
Such letters to secure the ammunition available in the warehouses of the EU countries have been sent to all defense ministers of the 27 countries in the union, BNR reported. The news was announced by Borel at a joint briefing with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba. It was made shortly after Russian President Vladimir Putin announced in a speech that Russia was freezing its participation in the Strategic Offensive Arms Reduction Treaty.
One year after the invasion of Ukraine, Putin is not showing that he is ready for peace, quite the opposite, Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said. To Russia’s decision to suspend its participation in the Strategic Offensive Arms Reduction Treaty, Stoltenberg reacted as follows:
“I regret today’s decision by Russia to suspend its participation in the New Start Treaty. In recent years, it has been violating and walking away from key arms control agreements. With today’s decision, the entire architecture of arms control has been destroyed. I urge Russia to reconsider his decision and abide by existing agreements”.
“We are concerned that China may be helping Russia. It must not win and that is why we need to increase aid to Ukraine. I welcome the new announcements of arms deliveries and they must be made before Russia takes advantage of the situation,” he added. Stoltenberg.
“We will be driven by one goal – to end the war as quickly as possible,” said Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba, and delivered what he called a “very simple message”:
“It’s not about Ukraine, it’s about the rules that protect you. And if we fail to protect those rules in Ukraine, then you’re going to be in danger. And that’s definitely not something we want to face “.
Yesterday, the Minister of Foreign Affairs Nikolay Milkov stated that Bulgaria will not supply ammunition to Ukraine.
