Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmitry Kuleba. File photoWASHINGTON, Feb. 23 Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba suggested in an interview with Fox that it would be wiser to deal with the nuclear arsenals his country inherited from the Soviet Union, if not for the joint pressure of the United States and Russia. In 1994, Ukraine signed the Budapest Memorandum, giving up the world's third largest stockpile of nuclear weapons in exchange for a promise from other signatory countries to keep it safe.
"Though I don't want to speculate about the past —< /strong> what could and what could not, but at that time a more reasonable solution could have been found if the United States, together with Russia, had not taken a joint position to deprive Ukraine of its nuclear weapons", Kuleba said.The Minister is on a visit to the United States, where he agrees on assistance in the context of the aggravation of the situation around Ukraine. a Stoma