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Bulgaria warns of risk of "direct confrontation" between Russia and NATO
Bulgaria's pro-Russian President warned Tuesday of the risk of Moscow directly attacking a NATO country if Ukraine is allowed to hit targets inside Russia with Western-supplied weapons.
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"The hasty reactions of our politicians and institutions that Bulgaria will not send troops to Ukraine will mean absolutely nothing if any other country provokes a direct clash with Russia," Rumen Radev said in a statement to reporters in the Swiss city of Bern.
The Bulgarian head of state was referring to the appeal made today by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg to reconsider the current restrictions that prevent Ukraine from using allied weapons against Russian territory.
Stoltenberg stressed, during the NATO Parliamentary Assembly that met in Sofia, that Kiev "will have its hands tied" if it is unable to respond to Moscow's attack with offensives against legitimate military targets on Russian territory.
The NATO Parliamentary Assembly, an institution independent of the Atlantic Alliance, today approved a declaration of support for giving Ukraine this capability.
In addition to the 32 NATO countries, the institution is composed of delegates from partner parliaments or observers from other nations or organizations, such as the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe or the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).
"The appeals to NATO countries to lift the restriction on Ukraine's use of weapons to attack Russian military targets are giving Russia reasons to respond," Radev stressed, in reaction to this position.
His warning was made in allusion to the implications of Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty, which states that an attack on a member country is considered an attack on all allies.
Radev has accused Bulgarian politicians of putting the population at risk by opting for the Euro-Atlantic route, in a context in which "military rhetoric in the Western world is increasing".
"It is time for Bulgarian politicians to open their eyes to Russia's war against Ukraine, to strive to end it more quickly and to find paths to peace based on international law," Radev said, quoted in a statement from his office.
The Kremlin (Russian presidency) has already condemned Stoltenberg's appeal and accused NATO of increasing "the degree of escalation".
"NATO is playing with fire with military rhetoric, it is falling into a war ecstasy," said Dmitri Peskov, Kremlin spokesman, in statements to the newspaper 'Izvestia'.
The Russian military offensive on Ukrainian territory, launched on February 24, 2022, plunged Europe into what is considered the most serious security crisis since World War II (1939-1945).
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