SOFIA, December 4. /TASS/. President of Bulgaria Rumen Radev believes that the only way to resolve the military conflict in Ukraine is at the negotiating table, the Bulgarian National Radio reported on Wednesday citing the country’s leader.
Earlier in the day, Bulgarian President Radev delivered a lecture on the prospects and challenges for young people at the University of National and World Economy in Sofia.
The president said that as of today the West is carrying out a two-pronged attack against Russia. It continues to support military actions in Ukraine while waging an economic war against Moscow, putting diplomacy on the backburner indefinitely.
"I am convinced that hostilities can be stopped if there is a clear political will and if diplomacy is allowed to prevail, not just ambitious politicians and generals," Radev stated.
"The core value of diplomacy is to prevent conflict," the Bulgarian president continued. "In recent years, we have increasingly violated this principle, and this is because, in my opinion, life has ceased to be a fundamental human value."
"Those who pushed Ukraine to war to complete the win have not been able to determine what exactly this word means," Radev noted. "Those who stated at the conflict’s dawn that there was no military solution to this conflict were immediately branded as Putinists [adherers of Russian president Vladimir Putin]."
"It’s only today that we are returning to diplomatic efforts," he continued. "However, someone has to pay the price for the numerous victims and people maimed as a result of the conflict, for the lack of reason, for what remained in the shadows."
Radev also said that in the current conflict, the name of the game is making gains on the battlefield , inch by inch, so it is manpower that is the most important resource, and Ukraine is lacking in it.
Given where the conflict is today, the Bulgarian president continued, Ukraine’s allies should take a hard look at whether it is worth it to continue supporting Kiev.
"All right, we will supply rockets, tanks, aircraft, but what should we do when there is no manpower? This is a great political dilemma and I hope it will find its solution as soon as possible," Radev said.
"If we keep maintaining the same course - achieving the victory at any cost, achieving an impossible victory - then we must engage more people and it will be a devastation for us," the Bulgarian president added.