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Selenskyj: have exchanged nuclear weapons for war
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Ukraine handed over its nuclear weapons against strong security guarantees 30 years ago. President Selenskyj sees the basis for today’s Moscow War of Agency.
Ukrainian President Wolodymyr Selenskyj, in an interview with US President Donald Trump, asked for strong military support and security guarantees in the event of a ceasefire with Russia. Only this can prevent Moscow from rejecting the war at a later date, Selenskyj said in an interview with the Italian newspaper “Il Foglio”, which was published in parts of Ukrainian media.
He also talked to Trump about the 1994 Budapest memorandum, in which the USA, Great Britain and Russia gave the former Soviet republics of Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan strong security guarantees in return for the elimination of all nuclear weapons in their field. In the meantime everything turned out differently. When Russia occupied the Crimea peninsula and the Donetsk and Lugansk regions in the east of Ukraine, Kiev asked the guarantee for intervention, but there was no response. “Ukraine gave away its nuclear weapons,” summed up Selenskyj.
In retrospect, it would have been better if Ukraine had received the security guarantees from NATO at the time. “So if I would exchange nuclear weapons, I would exchange them for something very strong, something that can really stop every attacker, despite its size, territory, his army and so on – and that is a strong army and the safety block NATO” , said Selenskyj.
“We exchanged nuclear weapons for the war,” he explained Trump. Nevertheless, he was convinced that the US President could secure a strong position for Ukraine. “Because of the sanctions, the strength of the United States, the economy – he can accelerate this, in my opinion he can do it faster than any other in the world,” said Selenskyj.
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Source: Stern

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