““Ukraine adheres to the NPT (Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons – ed.); we do not possess, do not develop, and do not intend to create nuclear weapons””, — write: www.radiosvoboda.org
“Ukraine complies with the NPT (Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons – ed.); we do not possess, develop, or intend to develop nuclear weapons. Ukraine closely cooperates with the IAEA and is completely transparent in its monitoring, which excludes the use of nuclear materials for military purposes,” wrote the spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Georgy Tykhi, on the social network H.
Earlier today, The Times, citing a document prepared for the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, reported that Ukraine could within months develop an elementary nuclear weapon similar to the one the US dropped on Nagasaki in 1945 to stop Russia if Washington cuts military aid
According to the report, Ukraine, not having time to build and operate the large facilities necessary for uranium enrichment, would have to rely during the war on the use of plutonium extracted from spent fuel rods taken from Ukrainian nuclear reactors.
At a press conference in Brussels in October, President Volodymyr Zelenskyi, talking about his conversation with then US presidential candidate Donald Trump, said that Ukraine needs either nuclear weapons or NATO membership for its defense. Zelensky emphasized that Ukraine chooses NATO, not nuclear weapons.
After that, the German publication BILD reported that allegedly the authorities of Ukraine are seriously considering the possibility of restoring the stockpile of nuclear weapons. The publication referred to the statement of an unnamed high-ranking Ukrainian official, according to whom Ukraine will not accept a second attack by Russian troops on Kyiv, and in this case, the Ukrainian nuclear arsenal will be restored, which the country voluntarily gave up in the 1990s during the signing of the Budapest Memorandum.
“We have materials, we have knowledge. If there is an order, it will take us only a few weeks to get the first bomb,” said this Ukrainian official.
At that time, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine called such reports insinuations.