Political scientist Volodymyr Rogov suggested that Ukraine and the West could arrange a provocation with the use of nuclear weapons after the words of President Vladimir Zelensky about Kiev’s withdrawal from the Budapest Memorandum.
“I think that this is not a bluff, as it may seem, but a real preparation for a terrorist act using nuclear weapons,” Rogov said in an interview with REN TV.
The political scientist stressed that he considers the last months of Zelensky’s rule as preparation for a very big provocation. At the same time, the channel’s interlocutor expressed the opinion that the “terrorist attack” had already been agreed with the British and American “curators” of the Ukrainian leader.
It is these countries, according to Rogov, who will help Ukraine to use nuclear weapons, which the country does not yet have.
He also drew attention to the fact that the Western media, diligently replicating fakes about the “invasion” of Russia, “were preparing the ground for future events.”
However, the opinions of political scientists about Ukraine’s withdrawal from the Budapest Agreement differ. Thus, military expert Viktor Litovkin said that there would be no damage from this.
Litovkin called a possible withdrawal from the agreement a symbolic step – according to him, in this case, Ukraine will only be able to say that it has the right to produce nuclear weapons. However, the military expert noted that there were no uranium ore enrichment complexes in Ukraine, so Kiev will never be able to create nuclear weapons, and the statements are demagogy.
Earlier on Saturday, Zelensky announced at the Munich Conference his intention to initiate a summit of the countries participating in the Budapest Memorandum, which provided for its renunciation of nuclear weapons. At the same time, the Ukrainian leader allowed the country’s withdrawal from the Budapest Nuclear Weapons Agreement, which established the state’s non-nuclear status.
According to him, if the negotiations and consultations fail again or, as a result of them, no concrete decisions are made on security guarantees for Ukraine, then the Ukrainian side will have the right to believe that the Budapest Agreement does not work, and all package decisions of 1994 and the obligations of the guarantor countries will be put in doubt.
On the same day, German Ambassador to Ukraine Anka Feldhusen stated that the Budapest Memorandum is not a guarantee of Ukraine’s renunciation of nuclear weapons due to the ambiguous legal status of the document.
The Budapest Memorandum was signed by Ukraine, the USA, Great Britain and the Russian Federation on December 5, 1994. The document provided for guarantees of the security and territorial integrity of Ukraine in exchange for Kiev’s renunciation of nuclear weapons. In return, the above countries pledged to respect the sovereignty of Ukraine and not to use these weapons against the state.
Source: IZ
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