The deal was made to prevent Ukraine from selling their nukes to the highest bidder on the black market, which was what they were doing with the rest of their military hardware.
No one trusted the Ukrainians then and nothing in their short sordid history as a 'democracy' rebuts that consensus.
Apparently Victoria Nuland and the idiot neocons in our state department trust them. You probably meant to say that no NORMAL person trusts them...