. We have fallen into a trap, as our country has been stripped of its most powerful weapon. And the neighbor enters
on the outskirts of the capital, threatening occupation. From a country that owns weapons,
Nuclear to a country betrayed by countries. And the mouth of its president says: We left
. The war is ravaging us from every direction. So what do we do?
Ukraine, which is facing Putin's invasion today? It was once part of the club of countries in the
nuclear. At the same time, a country terrifies Putin himself. How did you get to
what it is today? Where did her nuclear weapons go? Nuclear Ukraine
when you abandon your guardian angel. The roots of the story of the Ukrainian nuclear
go back to an immortal scene in history. It is the moment of the fall of the Soviet Union into
early nineties of the last century. In the past, Akiaf was part of our unit
the strong union. At the same time, an important part in all respects
military, economic and political terms. Ukraine alone represented as few as
more than thirty percent of the army's economy. It also extended the Soviet army
with more than one and a half million soldiers. It was the most powerful republic in
the Soviet Union, and it has a very important role in everything. And the issue of its release
is not easy. At the same time, it will create a strong country. In the first,
in December of the year one thousand nine hundred and ninety-one. Ukraine voted by a
overwhelming independence from the union. Independence we can say
was that it was the official announcement of the fall of the Soviet giant, in the eleventh,
from December of the same year that the leaders of Belarus, Ukraine and Russia dissolved
the Soviet Union officially. They formed the Commonwealth of Independent States. As
a person inherits from his great ancestors, the legacy of the Soviet Union was not
the newly independent countries. Rather, we can say that it was
terrifying majority. Ukraine had the lion's share in it. It is among the money and others.
had inherited Ukraine from the Soviets with a deadly weapon, the nuclear weapon.
, like the rest of the Union. Kiev had a share of the Soviet armament and
Nuclear. I actually got it from Moscow. Ukraine to become the third power,
nuclear in the world. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the
nascent Ukrainian Republic found
seventy ICBMs. And forty-four bombers
a heavy equipped with more than a thousand long-range nuclear cruise missiles. A thousand
eight hundred nuclear warheads. But glory and dreams do not last long.
the collapse of the Soviet Union left behind a new giant represented in
Russia. Which it turns out that it will not accept the presence of a nuclear state on its borders
. Even if that country was on good terms with it. It has already collapsed
pledge of both the Soviet and American sides to ever reduce
nuclear weapons in the Treaty of Strattoan. Signed by Mikhail
Gorbachev and George Bushlap ballistic missiles. By which the parties committed themselves not to deploy , and the
Of the six thousand nuclear warheads and one thousand six hundred between
intercontinental bombers. On the pretext of that agreement, Kiev was stripped of
Nuclear. In the year one thousand nine hundred and ninety-four. Russia signed
the Buddha Bast Memorandum. Which guarantees the
The independence, sovereignty, and declared borders of Ukraine in exchange for Kiev's approval of
removal of all nuclear weapons from the Soviet era.
. The memorandum stated at the time that the Russian Federation and Britain
United States reaffirms its commitment to refrain from
, threatening or using force against the territorial integrity or political independence of
Ukraine. And none of its weapons will be used against Ukraine, except for
in cases of self-defense or in accordance with the UN Charter.
Assurances played a role in persuading the Ukrainian government to give up what is
third largest nuclear arsenal in the world. Which consists of about
one thousand nine hundred strategic nuclear warheads. But Kiev remained hesitant
a little apprehensive. Where I asked for three guarantees. The first is about getting
a compensation for the value of highly enriched uranium in warheads,
nuclear weapons. Which can be mixed to be used as fuel for
nuclear. And then Russia agreed to make that request. As for the guarantee
the second was related to covering the costs of getting rid of ballistic missiles.
the intercontinental, its silos and its launching pads. Where the states agreed
the united reactors to cover these costs. As for the third and final condition, it was
that Kiev would get guarantees of its own security once it got rid of its weapons was
nuclear. This is what was included in the entire Budapest memorandum in several items. But
Ukraine, twenty years after that agreement. I realized it was
made an unforgivable mistake. By signing that memorandum and agreeing to abandon the
her weapon. Russia has breached all the commitments it made in the
the Budbast Memorandum. Moscow used military force to seize the
the Ukrainian Crimea. And then illegally annexed it in early
year two thousand and fourteen. Then the Russian forces and loyalist forces launched
its war for more than five years in the Dombas region. What resulted in the death of
more than thirteen thousand people. About two million people were driven out of
their homes. A few days ago, I implemented something bigger and bigger than that. She launched an invasion of
comprehensively against Ukraine in the largest war witnessed by the European continent since
World War II. Thus blowing up the Budapest memorandum completely without
. Recognized the beginning of the breakaway republics within Ukraine. And who
their turn, they were the hanger for its army to enter the Ukrainian lands under the pretext of
them preserved and stopping the genocide. Then it directed its arrows towards the capital, Kyiv
quick with a goal that becomes clear with the passage of hours that it aims to bring down the regime again
entire Ukrainian arms and the installation of a new regime loyal to Moscow once again. In
the shadow of war, displacement and suffering. Today, Ukraine recalls the
that lost it from their hands under the pretext of preserving world peace and preventing
about the outbreak of any nuclear war. But in fact today they face the second most powerful
of an army in the world on their own. The difference is that that army has nuclear weapons as
, from which they were stripped years ago under US-British patronage. They are the same countries
which she will support Ukraine forever. And on the ground it had
changed. Ukraine will face Putin's army alone, with a tragic memory
Regret and you will regret it forever.
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