In terms of ammunition production, Bulgaria may be in 2nd or 3rd place in Europe in terms of volume. The Bulgarian defense industry has a huge chance to modernize and expand its production.
This was said by Ivaylo Ivanov from the Union of Reserve Officers "Atlantic" in front of Bloomberg TV Bulgaria.
"It can also pass to NATO standards, which is extremely important, because with the replacement of the army's armament and equipment from Soviet to modern Western ones, we will use Western standards and rely on our own production of ammunition, and we will not we buy them from foreign producers“.
On the topic of whether to use weapons on targets in Russia, the interlocutor said that this would mean dropping the restrictions that the allies themselves have imposed due to the fear of escalation.
In a sense, they were unreasonable from the point of view of the purpose we have declared – Ukraine's victory in this conflict. And here the victory, because it is often talked about, it does not mean that Russia capitulates and that it is occupied, but in the best case that Ukraine pushes the Russian occupation troops out of the internationally recognized borders, as they were declared in 1991.
"We are not effectively using the resources we provide to Ukraine. These restrictions will gradually fall, for now they have fallen only in the Kharkiv region, since the hostilities have this specificity, because the region is only 30 kilometers from the border with Russia and allows Russia to shell the region from its own territory," Ivanov added.< /p>