Bulgaria's Defense Ministry denounced Russia's systematic War Crimes in Ukraine

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"The war of the Russian Federation against Ukraine was the main factor with a destabilizing influence on the strategic environment, which determined the national security challenges. Hybrid threats, terrorism, authoritarian regimes, migration waves, organized crime, cybercrime and cognitive impacts were among the main challenges for national and union security and, globally, grain supplies. The unjustified war in Ukraine, which was started in complete violation of international law, caused particularly large-scale damage to all spheres of social and economic life. The Russian armed forces committed systematic war crimes."

This is how the Bulgarian Ministry of Defense assesses Russia's war in Ukraine in the 2022 report on the state of defense and the Bulgarian armed forces. The document was approved by a decision of the caretaker government on Monday (April 3) for submission to the National Assembly.

Despite these unequivocal assessments of Russia's war in Ukraine, and although the report verbally claims that Bulgaria stands in solidarity with the attacked country and supports its legitimate efforts and actions to oppose Russian aggression, including by providing military aid, the caretaker cabinet of President Rumen Radev is trying by all means to prevent the implementation of the decision of the 48th National Assembly to provide military aid to Kyiv.

The report also states that the war has led to the expansion of Russian hybrid subversive activity against NATO and EU member states, and Bulgaria has also been subject to systemic Russian hybrid impacts, including through the unilateral interruption of gas supplies. The purpose of these actions is mainly aimed at:

  • influencing sovereign national strategic decision-making;<...
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