Before the war in Ukraine started, large quantities of Bulgarian weapons were found in Syria. The prosecutor’s office in Sofia announced last year that it suspects Russia of several incidents at Bulgarian arms factories over the past decade. The pro-Russian forces in the Bulgarian government and President Rumen Radev are against the export of arms to Ukraine, arguing it constitutes Bulgaria’s direct intervention in the war.ĭespite this, the business of Bulgarian companies was going well with weapons being exported with the help of American, Polish and Romanian intermediaries. Representatives of the company EMKO said the explosion was, like last time, the result of sabotage as there was nothing in the warehouses that could spontaneously explode.īulgaria is one of the largest producers of Soviet-standard ammunition, and in the past year and a half, has exported more than $2 billion worth of weapons to Ukraine, but only through intermediaries. We cannot know what happened we still do not know what caused the explosions last year, let alone now after a few hours,” Gebrev told bTV, adding the warehouses contained materials for the manufacture of defence products. The most important thing is that no one got hurt. “This is an inexplicable strong fire at midnight. They are owned by one of the most famous Bulgarian arms manufacturers and traders, Emilian Gebrev, who, eight years ago, was the victim of an assassination attempt with a substance similar to Novichok, for which the Bulgarian prosecutor’s office accused Russian military intelligence agents. The warehouses that exploded Sunday were targeted a year ago in an instance of sabotage. Ammunition warehouses of the Bulgarian arms company EMKO exploded early on Sunday near Karnobat, a few days after Bulgaria announced it would join the coalition to supply shells to Ukraine.
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