Bulgarian PM concerned about Putin's "imperial ambitions"

Bulgarian Prime Minister Nikolay Denkov said that Russian dictator Vladimir Putin's comment that the entire Black Sea coast was Russian is evidence of "imperial ambitions" that potentially threaten some European countries. This was reported by Euractiv, according to UNN.

"If we look back a few years, we will see consistent statements containing imperial ambitions, and these ambitions are at the expense of several countries that are now part of the EU," Denkov said and continued: "To a certain extent, this is not something new, but on the other hand, we have to take such statements seriously, because if earlier they sounded like just words, lately they look like an action plan, so we really need to be very careful."

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Recently, Putin once again spoke about the Kremlin's vision of Ukraine's history during a live broadcast and made comments that media in Bulgaria took as a hint of possible territorial claims.

"The entire Black Sea coast became Russian after the Russian-Turkish wars," the dictator said.

The Bulgarian Prime Minister, answering journalists' questions about what measures Bulgaria should take in view of the Kremlin's narratives about "native Russian lands" that should return to Russia, said that it is the integration of the Bulgarian army into NATO structures, modernization of its weapons and the continuation of joint training of Bulgarian forces with NATO troops.

"We need to be prepared if, God forbid, something happens," Denkov concluded.

As a reminder,

the Russian dictator called Ukrainian cities in the south and east Russian, to which Ukraine has nothing to do, and that these lands were given to Ukraine by Lenin during the formation of the USSR. 

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