“The Bulgarian government acted according to the rules in this case,” Minister Todor Tagarev said about the situation with the plane of Sergey Lavrov and Ekaterina Zakharova.
“I don’t know what kind of reaction there might be from their side, because our people, apart from diplomats, don’t go to Moscow. Just nervous Russian propaganda,” he added on Nova TV.
“I cannot comment on another country’s decision,” he added, as to how Greece allowed the plane to fly over.
“We are strictly following the plan to increase defense spending. Next year we will reach 2%. Romania has already gone to 2.5%, the Baltic countries – 4%. The Romanians are already receiving 32 second-hand F-16 aircraft from Norway. And they have 40. And they will take the F-35”, Minister Tagarev added.
“But we all rely on our allies. This is also our policy,” he added. “With the increased budget, we will start being useful to the allies,” he added.
3D radars, drones and more are included in the program.
The European Sky Shield initiative will be developed in the coming years. The idea is not for each country to buy anti-aircraft complexes, but to act collectively to lower the price.
We will be the 13th country to join this initiative. But this will happen in 3-4 years, the Minister of Defense pointed out.
Threats to me are a daily occurrence, Tagarev explained. He is the minister whom Prime Minister Denkov meant that a policeman, a fan of the “Wagner” group threatened. But this was third-hand information. He was also called as a witness in the case of a man for threats on social networks.
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