What nonsense Ukraine never had nuclear weapons.
The weapons in ukraine were Soviet and were always under Russian
Control.
They were never under Ukrainian control.
Clinton’s a lying sack of turd as always
Correct.
They were Soviet weapons.
Are you saying that President William Jefferson Blythe Clinton is admitting to a “non crime?” With Regret? I call, “BS!”
The poor bastard, Clinton, is just yearning to have people think that he did just ONE decent or worthy deed!
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.
“They were never under Ukrainian control.”
Ukraine did controlled former Soviet nuclear weapons left on its territory after the 1991 Soviet Union collapse, which were transferred to Russia by 1996 in exchange for security assurances, under the 1994 Budapest Memorandum and the 1991 Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), and Ukraine has been a non-nuclear weapon state since then.
After its dissolution in 1991, Ukraine inherited about 130 UR-100N intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM) with six warheads each, 46 RT-23 Molodets ICBMs with ten warheads apiece, as well as 33 heavy bombers, totaling approximately 1,700 nuclear warheads that remained on Ukrainian territory.
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