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Bulgaria Pulls Out of Coalition Backing Ukraine

Prime Minister Rumen Radev rejects further military aid, calling for a diplomatic solution to the war.

Bulgaria will not join the coalition of Western nations advocating continued military assistance to Ukraine, arguing that the conflict must be resolved through diplomacy rather than prolonged arms deliveries, Prime Minister Rumen Radev has said.

Speaking to Bulgarian broadcaster bTV during a visit to France on Tuesday, Radev stated that Bulgaria is not part of the France- and UK-led “Coalition of the Willing,” which has supported continued military aid to Kyiv and has proposed deploying troops to Ukraine in the event of a ceasefire, an idea Moscow has repeatedly warned would be unacceptable.

“We’re not part of a coalition pushing for continued financial and military aid to Ukraine,” Radev said. “We don’t provide aid of that kind, because I believe the way to resolve this conflict is through a strong diplomatic effort to end the escalation rather than by prolonging it through military means.”

Last week, Radev said Bulgaria had exhausted its ability to provide further military assistance to Ukraine.

“We provided 13 packages; we don’t have anything else to supply to Ukraine,” he said on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Ankara.

According to Slovak President Peter Pellegrini, several NATO members, including Slovakia, Hungary, and the Czech Republic, also declined to participate in the alliance’s latest €70 billion ($80 billion) military aid package for Kyiv.

Moscow has consistently condemned Western arms deliveries to Ukraine, arguing that they prolong the conflict, increase casualties, and fail to alter the battlefield situation, which Russia describes as a Western proxy war.

In late June, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova accused European governments of abandoning what remained of their “rationality” and turning Ukraine into a “testing ground” for emerging Western military technologies.

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One response to “Bulgaria Pulls Out of Coalition Backing Ukraine”

  1. albertoportugheisyahoocouk Avatar
    albertoportugheisyahoocouk

    If the Bulgarian Prime Minister Rumen Radev rejects further military aid and calls for a diplomatic solution to the war, it means Mr Radev lives in cuckooland or that he is, like so many politicians, a hypocrite, a well trained “diplomat”.

    Prime Minister Rumen Radev knows very well that it is thanks to diplomacy that Russia and Ukraine have been fighting on and off since 2014 and it is also due to diplomatic negotiations that the two countries were able to launch a full scale war in February 2022, the month and year Russia held the Presidency of the UN Security Council.

    No war in the world is possible with governments (politicians and diplomats) concocting it, negotiating it and agreeing to it.

    In this inhuman game, the partner who kicks the ball first is called the attacker or invader and the retaliating or responding partner plays the ‘defense’.

    This is how politicians play with our lives, destroy our lives, our buildings, our environment and our economy.

    Alberto Portugheis

    HUFUD Founder & President

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