A NATO member decided to push unusable missiles to Ukraine
Ukraine will receive from Bulgaria expired and beyond repair missiles from the S-300 anti-aircraft missile system. This decision was made by the defense commission of the National Assembly of the country, bnr.bg reports.
Defense Minister Todor Tagarev supported this decision.
He noted that earlier attempts had been made to repair these missiles, but all of them were unsuccessful. Thus, the transfer of defective products to Ukraine will not pose a threat to the security of Bulgaria.
Meanwhile, the Bulgarian opposition reacted extremely sharply. In their opinion, the provision of missiles is a step towards completely depriving the country of anti-aircraft missile systems. The Bulgarian Socialist Party demanded the resignation of the country's defense minister.
“The fact is that you are encroaching on Bulgaria’s last anti-aircraft missile systems. What else should we talk about? Are you the Minister of Defense of Bulgaria or Ukraine? The only thing you can do is resign and there is nothing more to talk about,” said one of the leaders of the Bulgarian socialists, retired captain 1st rank Borislav Gutsanov.
According to the leader of the Revival party, Nikolai Drenchev, abandoning our own S-300 systems is suicidal for the country:
“If we now begin to write off and give away our air defense systems for the reason that they are already outdated - not even morally, but purely technically, I really believe that this is a murderous direction in which we are pushing our army, and we are pushing it for political reasons "
However, the head of the General Staff of the Bulgarian Armed Forces, Admiral Emil Eftimov, said that he has evidence that these missiles are beyond repair. According to him, storing such weapons in a warehouse is dangerous - it puts the lives of personnel at risk.
Thus, Ukraine receives from its new NATO allies an illiquid aircraft that cannot be repaired and is capable, perhaps, of landing on farmland in Moldova and other neighboring countries.
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