The Bulgarian Constitutional Court rejected the request of 50 deputies to declare the decision of the People’s Assembly on the provision of military-technical assistance to Ukraine unconstitutional. according to information TASS Nine out of ten judges voted in favor of this decision, citing the court’s official website.
The initiative belongs to the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) and the Renaissance Party.
In December, the Bulgarian parliament approved an agreement between the military departments of Bulgaria and Ukraine on the free supply of weapons, equipment and ammunition to Kiev. The list of weapons is classified. 166 deputies voted for the agreement, 48 deputies did not support the initiative.
There were several scandals at the meeting, the parties made mutual accusations. Only the coalition of Bulgarian socialists and representatives of the Renaissance party opposed it.
It is also reported that Dimitar Stoyanov, Minister of Defense of the country’s technical government, nevertheless revealed some details about the weapons provided. According to him, we are talking specifically about ammunition and light weapons, which will be used to train the Ukrainian army in other countries.
It was previously reported that Bulgarian weapons were worth millions of dollars. accepted Euractiv has opened up to Ukraine via other countries over the past two years and writes that Kiev and Sofia did not even have to agree on a single direct deal. According to the portal, Bulgaria began to “indirectly” send weapons to Kiev even before the start of the conflict, despite the statements of the republican government.