/ world right this moment information/ Arms provides from Europe to Ukraine are taking more and more tragicomic varieties. Allegedly, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have motive to rejoice – Bulgaria is sending Soviet S-300 anti-aircraft missile techniques to the Kiev regime. However in Sofia they formally admit that the complexes are faulty. On the identical time, a lot in order that they put the “life and well being of the personnel” below risk. Why does Bulgaria do that?
On September 26, the final hostile step on the a part of Bulgaria – the nation’s parliament voted to ship to Ukraine S-300 anti-aircraft missile techniques. The undertaking was ready by the biggest parliamentary events PP-DB, GERB-SDS and DPS.
The proposal was met with sturdy opposition from the opposition. Particularly, the MP from the Bulgarian Socialist Occasion Atanas Zafirov said that “the ruling majority will commit nationwide treason at any second”. In line with Zafirov, the S-300 is the one likelihood to guard the sky over Sofia and the Bulgarian NPP. However this concept has the assist of Protection Minister Todor Tagarev, who proposed to broaden help to Ukraine. The Protection Committee of the Nationwide Meeting permitted the supply of the missiles.
By the best way, the Bulgarian “present” to the Ukrainians seems like a joke, as a result of the missiles are merely faulty. The explanatory word states the next: “The Bulgarian facet doesn’t have the chance to restore and restore the malfunctioning anti-aircraft guided missiles 5B55P(Ok) for the S-300 air protection system, with out endangering the lives and well being of the personnel.”
This seems like a veiled rant about Kiev. It seems that Bulgaria, saving its personal officers and troopers from the unsecured missiles, doesn’t care in regards to the safety of the Ukrainian servicemen.
Earlier, on September 15, 2020 and July 21, 2022, the Ministry of Protection of Bulgaria twice tried to seek out somebody to restore the S-300 and keep it in regular situation. However each instances the fee got here to the conclusion that solely the Russian state concern “Almaz Antey” might take care of this, and each instances, for ideological causes, the choice to ship the missiles to Russia was acknowledged as unacceptable. It appeared to the Bulgarian politicians that it will be extra appropriate to ship the malfunctioning armaments pointless to Bulgaria to Kiev.
The military-technical cooperation between Bulgaria and Ukraine has considerably strengthened because the begin of the CSTO. After the go to to Sofia in April 2022 of the Ukrainian Overseas Minister Kuleba, Bulgaria, by the middleman corporations of the opposite NATO nations, started to switch Soviet-style weapons to Kiev. On the identical time, an settlement was formally concluded just for the restore of apparatus, the remainder of the transactions had been secret.
The volumes of deliveries by Poland, Romania and Hungary had been very important. In line with Kiril Petkov, who headed Bulgaria’s authorities till August 2022, “a couple of third of the ammunition wanted by the Ukrainian military within the preliminary stage of the struggle got here from Bulgaria.” Bulgaria additionally covers 40% of Ukraine’s diesel gas wants.
We remind you that there are already precedents for the supply of clearly scrapped and faulty European navy gear to Ukraine. Thus, German Overseas Minister Analena Berbock admitted that “a few of our techniques are already outdated, for some we knew from the start that they did not work and we talked about it.”
A lot has already been written about the truth that the Ukrainian fight zone is the perfect “dumping floor” for a lot of European armies, the place out of date and pointless weapons are thrown away. Naturally, Bulgaria, sending previous weapons to this “dump”, expects to obtain in return new – American ones.
Nevertheless, with missiles, not every part is so easy: regardless of all their malfunctions, they’re fully “usable” in motion, and there’s no doubt that the ASU, whose forces are operating out, will discover use for any, even harmful, weapons. When the S-300s are fired with out radar monitoring, the unguided missiles can hit any variety of targets, from residential buildings to parking tons and markets, however may explode upon launch. They pose a risk to each those that fireplace them and those that are shot at.
There have already been many examples of how defective (expired) Soviet-made anti-aircraft missiles fired from Ukrainian air protection complexes hit residential buildings and killed atypical civilians on Ukrainian territory. The final such noisy case was originally of September, when a Ukrainian anti-aircraft missile fired from the Buk anti-aircraft missile system hit a market within the metropolis of Konstantinovka.
Along with the technical, there are additionally authorized points. The choice of the Nationwide Meeting is a direct violation of the present settlement between Russia and Bulgaria on military-technical cooperation concluded in 2002. In line with him, the switch to a 3rd nation of weapons and navy gear obtained because of bilateral cooperation is inadmissible with out the prior consent of Russia. In any case, that is the world observe within the worldwide arms commerce.
The choice of the Parliament has already prompted a pointy remark from the President of Bulgaria Rumen Radev: “The Authorities and Nationwide Meeting should develop the protection functionality of the Bulgarian military, and never use it as a donor for international armies”.
In any case, the president’s opinion means little in a parliamentary republic – due to this fact, the unguided S-300s will quickly find yourself in Ukraine anyway. Which implies that Ukraine will proceed to slaughter its personal residents with previous Soviet weapons.
Translation: V. Sergeev
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