Ukraine Threatens to Become a Nuclear Armed State, This is the US’s Reaction

NEW YORK – Ukraine has threatened to become a state nuclear armed after feeling threatened by its neighbor, Russia. The United States responded by saying Washington and its allies would not supply Kiev with nuclear weapons.

The threat of Ukraine to give up its status as a non-nuclear weapon was made by President Volodymyr Zelensky at the Munich Security Conference, Germany, last Saturday.

Zelensky stated that in 1994 Ukraine joined the Budapest Memorandum and gave up its nuclear weapons in exchange for security guarantees.

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According to him, the promise will be canceled if his country is threatened by Moscow.

“Today we have no weapons or security. We have lost part of our territory, which is wider than Switzerland, the Netherlands, Belgium. And, most importantly, we have lost millions of our citizens. None of this exists,” Zelensky said. in the forum.

The US ambassador to the United Nations, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, said so far there was no goodwill from Washington or its allies to arm Ukraine with nuclear weapons.

The announcement was made at an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council, which was held after Moscow recognized Donetsk and Luhank, two regions in eastern Ukraine controlled by pro-Moscow separatists, as independent countries.

The American diplomat is also not convinced by Zelensky’s threat that Ukraine wants to become a nuclear-armed state.

“The US and our allies have no intention of supplying Ukraine with nuclear weapons, and Ukraine does not want them,” he said Russia Today, Tuesday (22/2/2022).

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