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The Ministry Council banned the direct export of ammunition and weapons (under pressure from pro-russian parties) to Ukraine during the first few months of the war, so what we did was sell weapons and fuel to Poland, who'd then gift them to Ukraine. This was pretty common knowledge here, news would talk about it a lot, there was even footage of semi trucks and planes loaded with ammo headed for Poland. Although the government denied us giving weapons to Ukraine basically everybody knew about it.
If anything can bring Europe together, is figthing against Russia, even secretly. >

Precisely. Russia is amazing at being able to mobilize vast swathes of diverse countries against it. I'm from a country bordering Russia, I don't want to dislike my neighbour, but the Kremlin's actions leave one little choice. >

At this point it's either hate Russia, or be genocided by them. >

I really hope the world ends by meteor strike and not a fucking race war. I just want to have a fuckin garden and raise my kids and the whole fuckin world is on fire. I don't get to know that my children get to even have a future because everyone is constantly threatening war instead of pooling resources and information. >

Despite all this, the world is a more peaceful place than it has ever been. Violent death is way down, and you and your kids never had a better chance to die of old age. >

I'd agree with this if not for climate change.... >

Even then, we barely missed the extinction event (4C) and while we’re on track for a shitty future, the human race will survive >

Yea, but modern society might not. >

It never does >

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Bulgaria, one of the poorest EU members and long perceived as pro-Moscow, helped Ukraine survive Russia's early onslaught by secretly supplying it with large amounts of desperately needed diesel and ammunition, the politicians responsible have said.
Sofia did not supply Ukraine directly, but allowed Bulgarian intermediaries to sell to their counterparts in Ukraine or Nato member states, and kept open its air links with Poland and land routes via Romania and Hungary, Peskov told the paper.
They were especially sensitive since the fuel Bulgaria was shipping to Ukraine was produced from Russian crude oil, at a refinery near Burgas on the Black Sea operated by Russia's Lukoil.


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They were especially sensitive since the fuel Bulgaria was shipping to Ukraine was produced from Russian crude oil, at a refinery near Burgas on the Black Sea operated by Russia's Lukoil.

The funniest part if you ask me. >

Whole this war is filled with this shit. Russia is supplying Europe with gas through Ukraine and paying Ukraine for this. Madness. >

It's not that surprising. It's just private businesses trying to make profit /stay afloat.
It's not "one country buying from another country" it's companies in one country buying from businesses in another country. And if they can get past sanctions to do that, they obviously will. >

Gazprom is majority owned by the Russian state, and the Ukrainian government operates the pipelines through its territory >

So Bulgaria purchased crude oil from Russia, processed it at its Lukoil-owned essentially Russian refinery and sent it to Ukraine.
Funny stuff. >

And they did it hidden away from their allied pro-Russia coalition lol >

Or so they claim. The "pro-Russian" (Russian subsidized) would get their funding suspended, if their boss found out they knew about it and didn't stop it. It's hard to hide such exports regardless. >

Yesterday it came out that supposedly we gave Ukraine 14 Su-25 that we had.
Our Minister of Defence came out and said that no planes have been sold in the past year to appease everyone 
4D chess >

It's like Lukashenko promising Putin to send "up to 7 divisions" to invade Ukraine.  And then sending 0.  Which is.... technically... "up to 7."
This is what happens if you push the literal rest of the world too far. >

Forever friends >

Most former Warsaw Pact countries seem to understand the importance of helping Ukraine stop Russia now >

This can’t be stressed enough.  That the former Warsaw Pact countries saw Ukraine getting invaded and essentially all of them said “fuck that.” >

Belarus also shows what life is like if you get too cozy with Russia and give up your sovereignty. >

What's up with Belarus? >

It's poorer Rusia where people actually hate their dictator. Funny that Belorussians are known as very calm patient people but they protest more against their government and war in Ukraine than Russians. >

Russians as a people are taking the biggest L on planet earth. Do nothing and actually enable a corrupt mafia govt to steal literally every cent from you for decades all while cheering it on then not give a single shit as your literal brothers aunts and uncles are genocided in ukraine for literally no reason at all. I know its not everybody but holy shit russians suck ass at life. Theyre poor as shit in the most resource rich country on earth and cant be bothered to do anything about it. Yea its tough now but thats because they let it go on for decadessss. Fucking do something… >

I think their mindset is something like this - get born in poverty and struggle your entire life, watch some movies or go on the internet and find out other people (mainly americans) have way easier and better lives while also getting fed all kinds of propaganda by the goverment, older people and even family and then start blaming everything else instead of your self and your country which stops you from doing something about it or about your self and to be fair you dont have a lot of oportunity to do something. I live in the poorest region in the poorest EU country and we have the same problem >

Interesting username. 
Since you have an internet connection, and you obviously know what the outside world is like; what are your plans? >

I dont have a master plan, ill just try to make the best out of my situation. 
By the way my username is something i came up with as a kid and it doesnt have any meaning, also I am bulgarian. >

According to our officials we are not helping,but this is a public secret in our country.There are rumours that we are in top 5 suppliers to Ukraine >

If so, we thank you from the bottom of our hearts for the aid! Thanks! >

Yeah, we couldn’t send any heavy weapons because they are frankly obsolete and in poor maintenance. However the Arsenal factory’s been working in three shifts for months. We’ve sent tons upon tons of small arms ammo. >

That was an open secret since first months of the big invasion. Bulgaria was doing their best. >

Bulgaria manufactures some quality AK74 pattern rifles that Ukrainians are probably pretty familiar with. They also manufacture a LOT of the 5.45x39mm ammunition that these rifles use so it makes sense for them to help if they can from the logistics standpoint. >

Western Europe: “We’ll supply Ukraine but we can’t take it too far; just one step at a time”
Eastern Europe: “BLOOD FOR BLOOD! BLOOD FOR BLOOD!” >

They know what life is like under the russian boot. >

Not how many people view it in Bulgaria. While the majority of younger people (as far as I've seen) are anti-Russian and pro-West, the older generation who lived during our communist phase are generally pro-Russia.
Those people liked communism (we were much worse before it, my grandmother has stories about hunger and how a single orange was a treasured gift for Christmas), some studied in Russia, have friends there and consider them "brotherly" people. They've watched Russian cartoons as children and read Russian books as teenagers.
Also historically we have a lot of good will for Russia, since it was them who liberated us from the Ottoman Empire, after 500 years of occupation.
I don't know what Eastern European nations think (we are Southern more than Eastern), but the majority of Bulgarians had no issue with Russia, before this war, and even now many still don't. >

Thats interesting, very different from Poland >

Oranges being a special Christmas thing is a typical story from communist-era Poland. >

Yeah, Bulgaria has got a lot of factories left over from the USSR days that were responsible for producing Warsaw Pact calibers of artillery shells.  Western factories are only setup to produce NATO calibers.
Since the war got started, those Bulgarian factories have been working around the clock to produce tons of the stuff, which has been being purchased by Poland (probably with American money) who seems to have suddenly developed an insatiable appetite for it, despite having a relatively low number of systems that can use it. Strange.
Sadly, it turns out Poland has totally awful warehouse security and they keep misplacing the ammo they just purchased, which has an uncanny knack for showing up in the hands of those cheeky thieving Ukranians.
Oh well, better order another shipment to replace the one that got  "lost". >

A very good move. They assumed they were in the crosshairs after a Russian takeover of Ukraine and they most likely weren’t wrong.