Building of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bulgaria in SofiaMOSCOW, June 6 Ambassador of Ukraine to Bulgaria Vitaly Moskalenko sent an official note to the Bulgarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs asking for the supply of weapons. «I sent a note on Friday. It is impossible to get an answer in such a short time, but I will send similar appeals to other relevant institutions, for example, to the Ministry of Defense,» the ambassador said on the bTV channel. 
The media learned about the illegal sale of Western weapons by Ukrainian officialsAccording to Moskalenko, Kyiv has a need for Soviet, old weapons — howitzers and missile systems, with which the Ukrainian military can handle. He also confirmed that 80 Ukrainian tanks will be repaired in Bulgaria. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and , on March 25, completed the main tasks of the first stage — significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.
