site.btaSocialist Leader: "I Don't Know What Was Discussed with Dmytro Kuleba"

Socialist party leader and Economy and Industry Minister Korneliya Ninova said here Wednesday that she did not participate in the meetings with the visiting Ukrainian Foreign Minister, did not know what was discussed with him and was not informed of the talks. Ninova was approached by the press after Kuleba said that the issue of Bulgarian military aid for his country was on the agenda of his Sofia talks.

The government coalition is divided over whether Bulgaria should send military aid to Ukraine as the Socialists are firmly against.

Nikova said Wednesday that their position remains "unchanged, consistent, political, approved by all party forums". "We believe that we support peace. Sending weapons means prolonging the war and we want to see an end to the hostilities so that talks can start," said she.