The building of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) in Kiev. File photoMOSCOW, Feb 23Losing nuclear-free status could threaten Ukraine with international isolation, according to the PIR Center report «Nuclear Victory: Can Kiev Get Nuclear Weapons?»»The current crisis, as well as Ukraine's dependence on external funding makes it extremely vulnerable to the financial arguments of Washington, which is clearly not interested in the appearance of a nuclear arsenal in Ukraine.Also concluded with the IAEA, the Additional Protocol to the Comprehensive Safeguards Agreement practically excludes the possibility of quietly diverting nuclear material to military purposes.Compliance with this protocol is in the interests of Ukraine , because despite the statements of a number of politicians in favor of Ukraine's withdrawal from the NPT, the loss of a nuclear-free status would spoil Ukraine's relations with Western countries and would actually leave the country in international isolation,» the authors of the study point out. President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, speaking at the Munich conference, announced that he would initiate a re the dialects of the participants in the Budapest Memorandum on Security, which implies the provision of security guarantees to Ukraine in connection with its accession to 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.»
Putin called the emergence of nuclear weapons in Ukraine a strategic threatPosted by: Daria Buimova
