Running U.S. funded biolabs, trying to restart a nuclear program, and trying to join NATO got him smacked.
Stop mainlining KGB Koolaide. There was no restart of a nuclear program. And Ukraine could never have joined NATO as its borders were contested. Ukraine, Russia, and other post-Soviet republics got aid under the Nunn-Luger act to
1. Decommission and destroy soviet chemical and biological weapons, as well as older nuclear weapons.
2. Clean up environmental damage.
3. Keep ex-Soviet scientists employed and out of rogue nations by reseraching treatments for bioweapons and chemical weapons.
This 2022 article cites an earlier article from 2017 about Ukraine developing North Korea's ICBM's and wanting nuclear weapons in return for doing so. It might just be Russian propaganda because it's from the New York Times or I might be delusional and lying.
https://www.veteranstoday.com/2022/03/01/exclusive-ukraine-developed-north-koreas-icbms-and-nukes-against-us-now-wants-nukes-in-return/
Are you saying ‘godfather Joe’ is a Russian puppet? It was after all the Ukraine government the ‘godfather Joe’ threatened to withhold US aide IF that prosecutor was not shut down.