The former US president suggested that Russia could not start a war against a nuclear Ukraine.
Former US President Bill Clinton regretted convincing Ukraine to give up its nuclear weapons in the 1990s. He spoke about this in an interview with Irish broadcaster RTÉ.
The 42nd President of the United States suggested that Russia could not start a war against a nuclear Ukraine.
Clinton said she felt “very bad” about Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decision to violate the Budapest Memorandum and annex Ukrainian Crimea in 2014, calling Ukraine “a very important country.”
“I feel personally involved because I got them to agree to give up nuclear weapons. And none of them believed that Russia would agree to this if Ukraine still had its own weapons,” Clinton said. .
He emphasized that Putin, unlike his predecessor Boris Yeltsin, would not support an analogue of the Budapest Memorandum – a document that provided “security guarantees” for Kyiv in exchange for giving up nuclear weapons.
“They (Ukrainians – ed.) were afraid to give it (nuclear weapons – ed.) because they thought it was the only thing that protected them from expansionist Russia. Putin, seeing an opportunity, broke the agreement and first took Crimea And I from “I’m scared about it, because Ukraine is a very important country,” he stressed.
The Budapest Memorandum (an interstate document on security guarantees for Ukraine in exchange for joining the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons) was signed by Ukraine, the United States, Britain and Russia on December 5, 1994.
Recall that a few days before the large-scale invasion of the Russian Federation, Zelensky threatened to abandon the Budapest Memorandum. He asked to move from a policy of appeasement to guaranteeing security and peace in Ukraine.
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Source: korrespondent
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