When Bulgarian Prime Minister Petkov visited Ukraine in April last year, he promised that Bulgaria would be responsible for repairing weapons for Ukraine.

(Associated Press)

[Instant News/Comprehensive Report] After Ukraine was invaded by Russia in February last year, many countries provided military aid to Ukraine. Bulgaria, a neighboring country, has never made any clear support or statement, and even became the only one together with Hungary not to provide The weapons were given to the Ukrainian NATO countries, but some media revealed that Bulgaria secretly supported Ukraine in private and assumed nearly 40% of the Ukrainian army's fuel needs in the early stages of the war. It can be said that it secretly saved the Ukrainian country.

According to a German newspaper Die Welt, Bulgaria and Hungary are the only two countries that do not provide weapons to Ukraine to fight against Russia. When Bulgarian Prime Minister Kiril Petkov visited Ukraine last April, he only publicly promised that Bulgaria would Responsible for repairing weapons for Ukraine, but "Le Monde" revealed that Bulgaria had already launched a plan to aid Ukraine long before the Prime Minister's visit to Ukraine.

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At the beginning of the war, Bulgaria silently supported the shells and fuel that Ukraine urgently needed at the beginning of the war. Among them, in the fuel part, Bulgaria was criticized for continuing to import Russian crude oil, but Bulgaria refined the Russian crude oil and supplied it to Ukraine. Nearly 40% of the fuel needed in the initial period is needed to meet the urgent needs of the Kyiv authorities. Bulgaria mainly provides Ukrainian diesel oil. At present, the amount of oil exported to Ukraine is very large, accounting for about 1% of the entire Bulgarian economy.

According to statistics, from January 2022 to November 2022, Bulgaria exported fuel worth 700 million euros to Ukraine. It is estimated that in 2022, the total value of Bulgaria’s fuel exports to Ukraine will exceed 825 million euros, compared with pre-war , This is a thousand-fold growth, because in 2021, Bulgaria's fuel exports to Ukraine will only be 750,000 euros.

In addition, investigations have revealed that Bulgaria used a third party to support Ukraine with Soviet ammunition worth more than 1 billion euros. However, the Bulgarian government still denies the relevant investigation. The German "Welt" believes that Bulgaria can be said to be a country that secretly saved Ukraine.