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Bulgarian Prime Minister Rumen Radev called Wednesday for Europe to begin talks with Russia aimed at ending the war in Ukraine, arguing that continued military support alone would not bring peace and warning that Moscow's nuclear threats should be taken seriously.
Speaking at a Euronews conference in Brussels, Radev said Europe should focus on creating conditions for negotiations.
“We must start talking with Russia,” he said. “The most important is to prepare the conditions for peace.”
Radev said Ukraine was becoming increasingly unable to protect itself from Russian strikes and argued that there were limits to continued military assistance.
“We should know that there is a limit of just delivering weapons and supporting,” he said.
He said peace would ultimately be achieved “by diplomacy, not by delivering weapons.”
Radev ended Bulgaria's military support for Ukraine after his election victory in April.
Radev also highlighted what he described as a nuclear “risk” from Russia that was receiving insufficient attention.
“We should not neglect this. How much can we press Russia without Russia reacting with something else?” he said.
“When Russia feels weak—that happened in this war some years ago—they start playing again with the nuclear card,” Radev added.
His remarks came a day after NATO condemned what it called Russia's “irresponsible nuclear rhetoric.”
Moscow had warned that it would “deploy its entire arsenal” if NATO threatened Russia's Kaliningrad exclave.
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