WASHINGTON Feb 23 1994, said Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba. «In 1994, we denuclearized the third largest nuclear arsenal in the world. We have no plans to acquire nuclear weapons again. Today we expect the world to fulfill reciprocal obligations and ensure our security in the face of the threat of historical level of action, corresponding in scale and decisiveness,» Kuleba said at a meeting of the UN General Assembly dedicated to the Ukrainian crisis.Russia has heard a statement about Ukraine's nuclear ambitions, Putin saidUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, speaking at the Munich Conference, said that he would initiate negotiations between the participants in the Budapest Memorandum on Security, which implies providing Ukraine with security guarantees in connection with joining the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) . The Minister of Foreign Affairs was entrusted to convene them. According to the Ukrainian president, if they do not take place or there are no security guarantees for Kiev as a result, «Ukraine will have every right to believe that the Budapest Memorandum does not work, and all package decisions of 1994 will be called into question.» The situation in Donbass has escalated in recent days, the Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics have reported a lot of shelling by the Ukrainian security forces. The leadership of the DPR and LPR announced the temporary evacuation of citizens to the Rostov region in connection with the threat of Ukraine's invasion. First of all, the evacuation concerns women, children and the elderly. The head of the DPR, Denis Pushilin, said that Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky may soon order the military to go on the offensive, to implement a plan to invade the DPR and LPR. On Saturday, February 19, the leaders of the DPR and LPR signed decrees on general mobilization, and then turned to Russia with a request to recognize the independence of the republics. On Monday, after the Security Council meeting, Russian President Vladimir Putin addressed the citizens of the Russian Federation and stated that he considers it necessary to immediately recognize the sovereignty of Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics. He noted that the world prefers not to notice the horror and genocide in the Donbass, not a single day goes by without shelling, the killings of civilians and the blockade do not stop. As the President stated, in case of further bloodshed in the Donbass, the entire responsibility will be on the Kiev regime. Immediately after the appeal, the president in the Kremlin signed decrees recognizing the LPR and the DPR. In his decrees, Putin instructed to ensure the maintenance of peace in the DPR and LPR by the armed forces of the Russian Federation. Petr Popadyuk
