EUROPE - Now that the Russian invasion of Ukraine is well underway, the Ukrainian people regret giving up their nuclear weapons.
They did this back on December 5, 1994, at the OSCE conference in Budapest, Hungry, to “provide security assurances by its signatories relating to the accession of Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Ukraine to the Non-Proliferation Treaty of Nuclear Weapons (NPT).”
Until Ukraine decided to give up its nuclear weapons, it had the world’s third-largest nuclear weapons stockpile, according to a New York Times report.
After the annexation of Crimea by Russia in 2014, Canada, France, Italy, Germany, the U.K., Japan, and the U.S. stated that “Russian involvement was a breach of its Budapest Memorandum obligations to Ukraine which had been transmitted to the United Nations.”
Part of the NPT states that Russia must “refrain from the threat or use of force against Ukraine,” yet in typical Russian fashion, neither the Kremlin nor his army has followed the terms of this agreement,
According to the New York Times, President Zelensky, as he was criticizing Western countries for not living up to their agreements, stated, “Ukraine has received security guarantees for abandoning the world’s third nuclear capability,” Mr. Zelensky said. “We don’t have that weapon. We also have no security.”
At the same Munich Security Conference, the former Defence Minister to Ukraine, Andriy Zahorodniuk stated, “We gave away the capability for nothing.” He also added, “Now, every time somebody offers us to sign a strip of paper, the response is, ‘Thank you very much. We already had one of those some time ago.’”
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