Flag of Ukraine. Archival photoUN, 3 Aug. Acquisition of nuclear weapons by Kyiv would violate Ukraine's obligations under the NPT, grossly undermine the nuclear nonproliferation regime, Alexander Trofimov, representative of the Russian delegation, said speaking at the NPT Review Conference. the statements of representatives of Kyiv, which not only call into question the viability of the Budapest Memorandum, but can also be interpreted as an application for a review of Ukraine's non-nuclear status of Ukraine, may not cause concern,» Trofimov said. 
The United States turned Ukraine into a military training ground near the borders of Russia, the State Duma said»Such a destabilizing step would contradict Kyiv's obligations under the NPT, grossly undermine the integrity of the nuclear nonproliferation regime and create unacceptable risks for international security,» he added .According to the diplomat, Kyiv does not comply with its obligations under the Budapest conversations for many years. «In particular, those that were designed to counteract the growth of aggressive nationalism and chauvinism in Ukraine,» he said. As Trofimov pointed out, Ukraine's loss of territorial integrity was the result of internal centrifugal processes provoked by the external destabilizing influence of the West in an attempt to tear Ukraine away from Russia , «to which neither the Russian Federation nor its obligations under the Budapest Memorandum have the slightest relation.» «Neither in 1994, nor subsequently, Russia undertook to recognize the coup d'état and force parts of Ukraine to remain in its composition against the will of the local population itself «, — said Trofimov.
