We also agreed not to poke the bear in multiple Minsk agreements.
Ukraine never had a nuclear arsenal. Please tell us who the commander back then of the Ukrainian strategic nuclear force was? Tell us about the Ukrainian command structure about Ukraine launching them. There isn’t any. All of the so-called Ukrainian nuclear missiles were owned and controlled by Moscow. They didn’t give up anything. And thank God they didn’t get control of any, otherwise there would be a Nazi bomb in the world right now in the hands of that massively corrupt nation.
Additionally, the Budapest agreement was concluded with the nation state of Ukraine that completely ended in 2014 in a violent Banderist neo-nazi coup sponsored by the CIA. That was when Ukraine lost its sovereignty. Russia made no moves regarding Ukraine until well after the DC London axis did so.
So really, in effect, Russia moved to protect the sovereignty of Ukraine from a western invasion. At least that’s the point of view of a huge chunk of people in the east and Crimea.