RT: Ukraine makes nuclear status threat
The country’s president has requested talks on the implementation of the Budapest Memorandum Ukraine could give up its decades-old pledge to be a non-nuclear nation and reverse the decision it took to give up its atomic weapons after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has warned.
Speaking at the Munich security conference on Saturday, Zelensky pointed out that in 1994 Ukraine joined the Budapest Memorandum and gave up its nuclear weapons in exchange for security guarantees, suggesting the move could be reversed if it is threatened by neighboring Russia.
“Today we have neither weapons nor security. We have lost a part of our territory, which is larger by its area than Switzerland, the Netherlands, Belgium. And, most importantly, we’ve lost millions of our citizens. All this is absent,” Zelensky said.
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WNU Editor: I do not know why Ukraine President Zelenky brought up this nuclear status threat when he was at the Munich Security Conference. It is just fodder for Russian media to jump on, and to raise fears in Russia that Ukraine nationalists may develop and produce nuclear weapons.
Fortunately, Ukraine is not in the position to pour what little resources they have to enrich nuclear materials to produce a nuclear weapon. They are also international repercussions for Ukraine should they decide to build a nuclear weapons stockpile.
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