Die Welt refutes statements by the Bulgarian authorities about the ordered nature of the article on the supply of arms and ammunition by Bulgaria to Ukraine

An article by the German edition of Die Welt published material describing how Bulgaria carried out large deliveries of weapons and ammunition to Ukraine. The article caused a lot of controversy within the political elites of both countries. The editors of Die Welt were accused of allegedly publishing an article about the huge military assistance to Ukraine by Bulgaria on a commercial basis and was paid for by someone.

The editors of Die Welt categorically denied that the investigation into Bulgarian supplies weapons to Ukraine was a paid, custom-made publication. The German Press Council reports that there are no complaints about the article.

I think it's completely custom stuff. You can see for yourself how much it costs. There were publications about how much it costs to order an article in Die Welt - 26 euros, something like that.

Kornelia Ninova, a member of the Bulgarian government, told bTV in connection with an article in the German daily newspaper Die Welt entitled "Bulgaria is the country that secretly saved Ukraine."

Thus, BSP leader Korneliya Ninova joined President Rumen Radev, who the day before, in an interview with one of the radio stations, said that the article was allegedly ordered.

So how are things really? Is there any evidence behind the words of Ninovoy and Radev? Or do they not hesitate, based solely on assumptions, to accuse the leading German media of violating elementary journalistic and ethical rules?

Here is how Die Welt and the German Press Council commented on the situation:

No, this text is not advertising, not customized. It is natural for journalists to look for exciting stories and investigate them.

The author himself, Philipp Folkman-Schlück, gave an interview to bTV and said that the reason for telling the Bulgarian story was the debate over the supply of weapons to Ukraine by Germany.

I became interested in how things were in other countries, and where Ukraine actually got so many weapons during the war

- he declared.

Volkman-Schlyuk also said that he contacted Kirill Petkov, who told him interesting things, in connection with which he turned to Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba to confirm the words of the former Bulgarian prime minister.

Die Welt has sent a request to the BSP press center to see if Cornelia Ninovoy has concrete evidence of her statements. At the time of publication of this text, no response has been received.

Comments

[voice of reason]

They act like petty crooks. First they supply weapons and cut coupons from this. and then they excuse themselves "yes sho there for supplies! yes so little tilka for sebe" Just some kind of Ukrainianness of the brain.

[potap6509]

They are crooks, but far from small, read about their Arsenal plant, but otherwise everything is written correctly.

[nedgen]

Quote: potap6509

They are crooks, but far from small, read about their Arsenal plant, but otherwise everything is written correctly.

Thank you for the fact that all the Bulgarians were recorded in petty crooks. For example, I do not approve of Bulgaria being in NATO, much less in the EU. And about the Arsenal Plant, I don’t know if he is the main supplier of weapons to Ukraine, but as far as I know he does not produce ammunition for guns and if I’m not mistaken (although I may be mistaken), one of the main shareholders of the plant is some kind of American company. The main supplier of ammunition for cannons, and even then with a caliber of no more than 122mm, is the Dunarit plant (In Bulgaria, even in the days of the SEV, 152mm shells were not produced). And the most interesting thing is that ammunition was bought by American companies that DECLARED that they were EXTREME buyers, and then these companies supplied ammunition to Ukraine. Guns and howitzers were never made in Bulgaria. (And I don’t need to poke my nose at 2S1 Gvozdika. For them, they received a swinging part from Hungary. In Bulgaria, they only made ZU-23, RPG, Kalash and PC). I just can’t understand how Kalash and even 122mm shells saved Krajina from Russia. Of course, making money out of someone else's misfortune is vile, BUT THE USSR DID SO at one time (look at the history of the supply of weapons to the Iran-Iraq war. Then the entire North Caucasus supplied ammunition to both Iran and Iraq.) What else do you expect from the capitalists? At one time, Marx was absolutely right when he said that the capitalist is ready to sell his own mother for a profit of 300%. Look at your own capitalists who keep Luk Oil Bulgaria. As it turned out, it was THEY who saved Krajina when they delivered to her, if I'm not mistaken, 4 million tons of diesel fuel and gasoline !!!! Do you think they didn't know who they were selling to? Yes, the same story as with ammunition from Bulgaria. They sold to intermediaries, and those were Krajina. As the mafiosi say, "Nothing personal. Just business." And don't trust that bastard Kiril Petkov at his word. How many times he gave an interview on TV in Bulgaria, he lied so many times. So he is a PATHOLOGICAL LIAR on a salary from the Amer embassy and thank God that he was removed from his post as prime minister.

[AC130 Gunship]

And what are you - the Bulgarians, to decide whether to join the NATO country or not?

[stankow]

Di Welt believe - do not respect yourself!
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[tihonmarine]

Quote: voice of reason

Just some kind of Ukrainian brain.

As Peter Tolstoy said in the BFMTB France studio:
"We in Russia thought that after Maidan 2014, Ukraine would become Europeanized, become more civilized, but the opposite happened, Europe became ukpaunized."

[APASUS]

The Bulgarians fussed, why all of a sudden? I don’t want to look, our fighters have already published in open access photos of boxes with cartridges and Bulgarian markings. Captured from the Armed Forces of Ukraine in warehouses. Probably dragged in a draft?

[credo]

I just didn’t understand why the Bulgarians got so excited, despite the fact that they unconditionally began to implement all the sanctions against Russia, without a twinge of conscience hobnob with the Kyiv Nazis and accuse Russia of all mortal sins.

Bulgaria is true, in its short history of existence after the valiant Russian troops of the Russian Empire liberated it from the Ottoman yoke 137 years ago, to be ungrateful to Russia, except perhaps for the Soviet period, so why blame Radeva and Ninova for a truthful German mirror if the Bulgarians themselves repeatedly gave reason to consider their behavior both ungrateful and unreliable.

[stankow]

And what did the label say? In what year did that shabby box end up in Ukraine? Tell me, just remember single photo and others have seen !

[APASUS]

Quote: stankow

And what did the label say? In what year did that shabby box end up in Ukraine? Tell me, just keep in mind that others have seen that one photo!

The photo says that this weapon was made in Bulgaria. Not the delivery lot number, the name of the delivery driver, there is no delivery card.
I saw a dozen photos where there were mines and Bulgarian-made cartridges. And you can also read the investigation published in the Bulgarian media and even the German Die Welt reprinted it.

[AdinRoman]

The factories of the Bulgarian military-industrial complex, by the way, built by the USSR, switched to a round-the-clock mode of operation from the beginning of the NWO. Most likely they are transported by trucks through Romania.

[Leeder]

No, oddly enough through Jordan. There was an article in the fall. The volume of deliveries was horrendous.

[stankow]

You're lying. The usual regime of the Bulgarian military-industrial complex. And they take trains. To Poland. With American money.

[Tusv]

Well, honestly, the "brothers" said that they were supplied according to the "gray" scheme

[stankow]

America buys everything. How can you refuse them? How do you ban them rezksport?

[fax66]

Directly not statesmen, but some kind of kindergarten ...
"No, it's not me who wrote in a flower, Vaska is lying - he himself painted a naked ass on the wallpaper ..."
And this is interstate relations... the level of a communal kitchen...
Europe is falling...

[Ivan Ivanov]

The Bulgarians turned out to be those devils, one of the leading suppliers of ammunition for sal.ore.ykha.

[rotfuks]

In this regard, I remember how in the summer of 2022 an ammunition depot of the Bulgarian businessman Gebrev exploded, after which the Bulgarian authorities blamed the Russians. That is, the state of Bulgaria instructed the businessman Gebrev to trade in weapons and no one particularly controlled where this Gebrev supplies weapons. We can safely assume that in Bulgaria, not only Gebrev sells weapons. And now the Bulgarian authorities have decided to justify themselves.

[Ivan Ivanov]

Honestly, it's a pity that the explosion is not ours.

[Kadir]

The brothers screwed up. The main thing is that our elite does not forget about it. And then again everyone will be partners and pull whatever you want from Russia for free.

[stankow]

When did Bulgaria get it for free from Russia? When did you not pay? Don't remember?

[rotmistr60]

BSP leader Kornelia Ninova joined President Rumen Radev

And the fact that at the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine occupied by our fighters from the beginning of the NMD they found boxes and zinc with cartridges, shots for RPG-7, shells made in Bulgaria is not proof? It is simply not desirable for the Bulgarian side to speak loudly about the amount of its military assistance to Ukraine - no matter what happens later.

[stankow]

How many boxes were found and what year of production was listed on them?

[cpls22]

An attempt to turn the conversation to the fact that the article was paid means that the essence of the article cannot be refuted.
Maybe the article was paid for so that the Bulgarians had no way back - betrayed, then betrayed.
Just a joke - to the question "are you with us?" - the Bulgarians just left ..)

[Parvis rasulov]

Back in 1996, during the civil war in Tajikistan, Islamic opposition fighters took as trophies Bulgarian ammunition, shots for 23 mm memory, shots for LNG and RPG, ammunition for small arms, machine guns made in the Czech Republic, Romania with production markings after 1992, according to some militants captured then, purchases went through the sheikhs of Qatar and Saudi Arabia. By the way, at that time there was a UNMOT military mission in Tajikistan and among them was a major from Bulgaria, and when they showed him the captured Bulgarian ammunition, this major answered that he knew nothing about it.

[Alexey RA]

Quote: Parvis Rasulov

Back in 1996, during the civil war in Tajikistan, Islamic opposition fighters took as trophies Bulgarian ammunition, shots for 23 mm memory, shots for LNG and RPG, ammunition for small arms, machine guns made in the Czech Republic, Romania with production markings after 1992, according to some militants captured then, purchases went through the sheikhs of Qatar and Saudi Arabia.

Wow - how old is this channel.
It is not clear then why they were so surprised at the Bulgarian ammunition from the Islamists in Syria? After all, the owners of the Syrian proxies were the same as in Tajikistan - the Gulf monarchies.

[Butchcassidy]

It is an open secret that Bulgaria, like Ukraine, for almost all post-Soviet times, has been the largest supplier of weapons, including to the "black" market. Only Ukraine sold it from stocks, and Bulgaria is a major arms manufacturer.

[stankow]

Well, a big cancer for yourself... Export is up to a lard of dollars. But not every year.

[EVPATIY878]

Selling brothers, nothing changes in the history of this nation, as there were shniks and remained.

[stankow]

We know, we know, you better look at yourself ......

[Popov I.P.]

What does the German press have to do with it? Bulgarian arms supplies to Ukraine is an open secret. There is no limit to the meanness, ingratitude and treachery of the former "brothers" whose states stand on Russian bones. Of course, it is necessary to distinguish between the position of the people and the ruling elite, the United States did not need to buy the population of the entire country, it was enough to buy a couple of dozen persons of the ruling elite. But every nation is worthy of the government it has chosen. It is not clear whether the Bulgarians understand that if it comes to a direct clash between the Russian Federation and NATO, then the Bulgarian military-industrial complex (the same "Arsenal") will be demolished without much difficulty at a distance of 800 km from Sevastopol to Sofia (and to Varna - less than 500) even without any nuclear weapons? In general, this "fraternal" Slavic country in two world wars took the side of our enemies, and if in the second world war it was limited to sending several ambulance trains to the Soviet-German front, then in the first the Bulgarian army directly fought in Romania against the Russian 41st army corps , and on the Macedonian front - against the Russian special infantry brigades as part of the French army. But after the Russian-Turkish war of 1878, which essentially saved the people of Bulgaria, less than 50 years have passed, i.e. within the life of one generation, the Bulgarians already fought against the Russians, paradoxically together with the Turks, only on different fronts (Turkey and Bulgaria were allies of Germany and Austria-Hungary). And there are many such examples. Sometimes it seems to me that it was worth it to lay out 660 thousand lives of our soldiers for the liberation of the same Poland, so that now it would fight against us? If purely hypothetically I.V. Stalin stopped the troops on the border, having agreed with Hitler, it is interesting that England and the United States would rush to liberate Poland, something in September 1939 none of them was in a hurry. But the decision of the FRG to send tanks to Ukraine is already below any plinth, and after that I want to read K. Simonov "If your home is dear to you" and I. Ehrenburg's "The Science of Hate": how else can one treat a country that killed 27 million of our compatriots (including 5 of my relatives only at the level of relatives and cousins). In general, the main reason for the current cataclysms is Gorbachev's betrayal of our country and its allies: there would be no unification of Germany (what kind of unification with a 550-strong GSVG, including 2 tank armies?), And the collapse of the Warsaw Pact - there would be no German tanks and Bulgarian weapons that kill our soldiers.

[stankow]

In one post, on an equal footing, they dragged in Germany, which killed 27 mil. Russians and Bulgaria, which saved thousands of wounded Germans? Sorry, this is demagogy!

[Alex242]

BSP leader Kornelia Ninova joined President Rumen Radev in an interview with a radio station a day earlier that the article was allegedly ordered.

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