Hungary and Serbia Feeding Putin’s “War Machine,” Bulgaria Says
- Denkov says Serbia, Hungary had time to find alternatives
- ‘We cannot wait any longer,’ Denkov says of the gas tax
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Bulgaria’s leader accused Hungary and Serbia of helping feed the Kremlin’s “war machine” by failing to seek alternative energy supplies in an escalating row over a gas-import tax.
Signaling his government has no plans to back off the levy on Russian gas that transits Bulgaria, Prime Minister Nikolai Denkov said the intent is to starve state-controlled exporter Gazprom PJSC of profits used to fund the war against Ukraine.