What nonsense Ukraine never had nuclear weapons.
The weapons in ukraine were Soviet and were always under Russian
Control.
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Correct. Soviet Russia designed them, built them, maintained them and deployed them to Ukraine SSR, under strict Soviet guard. Ukraine SSR had the bulk of Soviet Russia’s nukes deployed on that territory. The problem was when Russia collapsed, they had no money or resources to remove them.
I was in Moscow during that time, and if you recall we paid Russia millions to destroy some of their nukes, by agreement . I witnessed at SVO airport, US Gold bars transferred on the ramp to awaiting armored vehicles, not dollars, but gold to help finance their nuclear reduction.
It’s more than just that the Soviet military always had physical and operational control of these nukes. Part of the agreement to allow Ukrain leave the Soviet Union stated that all nuclear weapons would remain under Soviet control.
Ukraine never had physical let alone operational control over a single nuclear weapon ever. The Ukrainian government nor the Ukrainian military ever had any abuility to operate or deploy a nuke.
All nukes in Ukraine were always 100% under the control of Moscow, they were never ever in any way shape or form under Ukraine control.