Understand. I’m old enough.
I was bamboozled too way back then. We’ve been lied to too often, and it’s becoming more obvious to an increasing number of People and citizens alike.
Wow, sorry you were so easily fooled, it explains a lot.
US Department of State Dispatch, January, 1994
The US-Russia-Ukraine Trilateral Statement and Annex were signed on 14 January, 1994 in Moscow by Presidents Clinton, Yeltsin and Kravchuk. The Statement and Annex:
provided for the transfer of all nuclear weapons on the territory of Ukraine to Russia for dismantlement;
specified prompt compensation by Russia to Ukraine for the highly-enriched uranium in the transferred weapons;
provided for security assurances by the US, Russia and United Kingdom to
Ukraine on Ukraine’s accession to the Non-Proliferation Treaty as a non-nuclear weapon state; and
reaffirmed the US commitment to assist the safe and secure dismantlement of nuclear forces through the Cooperative Threat Reduction (Nunn-Lugar) program.
The provisions of the Trilateral Statement and Annex are being implemented. When they were signed, there were some 1900 strategic nuclear warheads in Ukraine, most of which were on SS-19 and SS-24 ICBMs targeted at the US. As of June 1, there are none. (In addition, in 1991-92, some 2500 tactical nuclear weapons were transferred from Ukraine to Russia.) There were far more nuclear warheads on the territory of Ukraine than in any country other than the United States or Russia.
Russia is dismantling the removed nuclear warheads and has provided Ukraine compensation for the strategic nuclear warheads in the form of fuel rods for civilian nuclear power plants in Ukraine. These fuel rods are being delivered according to a schedule agreed to by Russia and Ukraine.
On December 5, 1994, Ukraine acceded to the Non-Proliferation Treaty as a non-nuclear weapon state. On that same date, the US, Russia and United Kingdom provided security assurances to Ukraine, and the START
I Treaty also entered into force.