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Ukraine could not but sign the Budapest Memorandum due to the danger of missiles and nuclear warheads, whose lines of operation ended in 1997.
OBOZREVATEL was informed about this by the first president of Ukraine, Leonid Kravchuk. Furthermore, according to him, Ukraine is a party to the signing of the Nuclear Disarmament Treaty and must fulfill its obligations.
Let us remind you that the famous Budapest Memorandum on Security Guarantees in connection with Ukraine’s accession to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons was signed on December 5, 1994 between the leaders of Ukraine, the United States, Russia, and the United Kingdom.
“Our missiles and nuclear warheads in 97 became dangerous. That was the moment of their death. We had to get rid of them or replace the warheads themselves. Ukraine did not produce or produce them, they were manufactured in Russia. There were no sales or supplies, it is about nuclear weapons, so Ukraine could not stop signing the Budapest Memorandum, “said the politician.
According to him, the popular theses that we should give up nuclear weapons and then Russia would be afraid to behave as it is now, “these are the opinions of people who do not know the essence of the history of the formation of nuclear warheads in Ukraine. Furthermore, the state was part of the signing of the disarmament treaty and was forced to comply with the obligations assumed “.
What exactly Ukraine signed in 1995 and why the West did not defend it in 2014 – read on OBOZREVATEL in the near future.
As OBOZREVATEL previously reported, according to Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba, a powerful military, the support of Western partners, effective diplomacy, and a stable society can become a substitute for Ukraine’s security guarantees prescribed in the Memorandum. from Budapest.
