Bulgaria's anticipated ammo shipment to Ukraine may impact war

Bulgaria will most likely sell a huge amount of ammunition to Ukraine through intermediaries, which could significantly impact the war.

The statement came from the former Bulgarian defence minister Boyko Noev in an interview with the local news service bTV, Euractiv reports.

The caretaker Defence Ministry will transfer old ammunition worth nearly €175 million to the state military plant VMZ and, in return, will receive new ammunition, the ministry said.

The goal is for the vast amounts of old ammunition from the warehouses of the Bulgarian army to go to Ukraine, the ex-defence minister, who is well acquainted with the arms business in the country, added.

“This is the largest rearmament of the Bulgarian land forces in recent history. That’s a huge amount of ammunition – hundreds of thousands. There is a huge increase in the prices of ammunition, and VMZ will sell this ammunition through intermediaries to Ukraine,” the former minister added.

“This is an amount of ammunition that can turn the tide of the war in some directions on the Ukrainian front,” he added.

The Bulgarian army has stockpiles of Soviet-standard ammunition, which the Ukrainian army needs to fuel its vast stockpile of Soviet-standard weapons, including tanks, howitzers, anti-tank grenade launchers, Soviet multiple rocket launchers, AK-47 rifles and more.