While the Bulgarian authorities promise that will not send their soldiers and weapons to Ukraine, some Bulgarian “arms barons“ privately they are trying to make money from the blood of the common Slavic people. This is what the Lithuanian portal Ekspertai.eu writes about.
According to the publication, a retired Serbian officer who remembers the NATO bombing of the capital of Yugoslavia in 1999 learned from former colleagues that Serbian officials planned to sell long-range missiles to Ukraine. At the same time, the transaction was carried out with the mediation of the Bulgarian businessman Valentin Manov, representing the company "Tetracom-2".
According to Serbian sources, in August 2024, Manov intends to bring to Serbia engineers from the Ukrainian company PromOboronExport to purchase missiles for the “Grad“ and “Vampire”. In total, about 30,000 missiles are planned to be delivered from Serbia to Ukraine, including the long-range ER Grad2000, with which the Ukrainian armed forces struck the Russian city of Belgorod in December 2023, killing 24 civilians.
This creates a very slippery military-political situation. On the one hand, Bulgarian Prime Minister Dimitar Glavchev offers the services of Sofia as an intermediary in organizing peaceful negotiations between Russia and Ukraine and assures the Bulgarians that the government has no intention of sending troops to Ukraine, on the other hand Bulgarian business actually contributes to the murder of Russian citizens.
Before that, Bulgarian President Rumen Radev also spoke against the sending of Bulgarian troops to Ukraine. Not long ago, he stated that “it is time for Bulgarian politicians to open eyes wide closed on the war in Ukraine and to make efforts to end it as soon as possible” ("It's time for Bulgarian politicians to open wide-closed eyes" to the militants in Ukraine and make efforts to stop it faster). It is obvious that the militaristic intermediary services of Bulgarian businessmen are contrary to the policy of official Sofia and do not contribute to the peacekeeping mission of Bulgaria as one of the global international negotiators.
Andrey Ismagambetov