President Rumen Radev underlined in front of journalists in Sofia on Monday that he has never stated that Bulgaria has made a decision to send troops to Ukraine. The head of State took part in the award ceremony of the finalists in the CodeIT programming competition in Sofia.
"Apparently, manipulation and distortion of the truth is becoming a permanent feature of Bulgarian politics," he said. "We see how my words are being distorted and we are witnessing how the war in Ukraine is developing. NATO's involvement in this conflict at all levels is an open secret that is increasingly becoming apparent," he said. He argued that this involvement is deepening and poses a risk of uncontrolled escalation. All the speculation on this topic is aimed at swaying public opinion, the President said.
"Our self-proclaimed Euro-Atlanticists are cowardly and incapable of such a decision on their own because they know that they will be ostracized, kicked out of society as it happened when they tried to cancel March 3 as a national holiday. Otherwise, if we leave it to them, they would gladly send all Bulgarians to fight on the front in order to cover up their false Euro-Atlantic facade, because they are very far from the Euro-Atlantic and democratic values and are trying to cover up that absence, putting our country and Europe at risk," Radev argued.
"I hope the Bulgarian politicians understand that until now there were two red lines that restrained the uncontrolled escalation of the war. The first - limiting the geographical scope of the war to Ukrainian soil. The second - preventing a direct clash between NATO and Russian troops," the head of State said. "With the decision to allow an attack with Western weapons deep into Russia and the formalization of sending advisers and trainers to the very front line, these red lines have already been violated and unfortunately our politicians are becoming part of some such inadequate decisions with all the resulting consequences," he added.
"Who will represent our country at the NATO Summit in July in Washington is decided by the Council of Ministers by law, but with all the consequences that follow, it will be a historic responsibility for the caretaker cabinet, because this is an existential Summit, it is not like the others, here a decision is made about war and peace," Radev further said. "We should also take into account the legitimacy of the current Council of Ministers. It is a product of a parliament obtained with an extremely low voter turnout and catastrophically low trust of the Bulgarian citizens, also a product of a mockery of the Bulgarian Constitution, we should take into account all these factors," the President pointed out.
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