A majority of Bulgaria's lawmakers on Thursday accepted sending the nation's first army support to Ukraine.
The Nationwide Meeting voted 175-49 with one abstention in favour of a proposal submitted by 4 nominally pro-EU events.
The federal government now has one month to resolve what sort of weapons Bulgaria can present with out affecting its personal defence capabilities.
Bulgaria beforehand agreed to restore Ukrainian army tools at its factories however refused to ship weapons immediately resulting from opposition from President Rumen Radev and the nation's Moscow-friendly political events.
Together with Hungary, Bulgaria was the one EU member nation that had declined to offer Ukraine weapons because it fought Russia's invasion and conflict.
"Extra weapons imply extra conflict," Bulgarian Socialist Get together chief Kornelia Ninova stated, explaining why her social gathering's lawmakers voted towards the proposal.
The heated debate that preceded the vote mirrored the divisions in Bulgaria since Russia invaded its neighbour.
Though the nation belongs to each NATO and the EU, many Bulgarians harbour sturdy sympathies for Russia rooted in historical past, tradition, and faith.
President Radev, a former military normal, has been accused of sustaining shut ties with Moscow and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin.
Radev has rejected the costs, sustaining he has condemned the Russian aggression "from the primary day of this conflict".
Bulgaria additionally depends closely on Russian vitality provides, which has been one other level of competition between pro-Russian and pro-EU political events in Bulgaria.
The professional-Russian nationalist Vazrazhdane Get together referred to as on its supporters to assemble in entrance of the parliament constructing to protest the army support for Ukraine, saying the help "pushes the nation into conflict".
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