What will own nuclear weapons change for Ukraine: the OP answered (video)
14 November 2024 21:54
The creation of a nuclear bomb in Ukraine will not significantly change the situation at the front, and therefore there is no point in doing so. This was stated by Mykhailo Podolyak, an advisor to the head of the Presidential Office, in an interview with RBC-Ukraine, "Komersant Ukrainian" reports.
According to him, if nuclear weapons could change the situation, the risk of creating them could be taken, despite all the legal and reputational difficulties.
“But this is definitely not a solution that will give us significant changes along the front line,” Podolyak said.
The number of weapons, the range and the availability of all informal permits for the use of weapons affect the situation at the front, Podolyak added.
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on October 17, in Brussels, on the sidelines of the European Council meeting, Volodymyr Zelenskyy reminded that the 1994 Budapest Memorandum, signed by the Russian Federation, the United States, and the United Kingdom, promised Ukraine the protection of its territorial integrity and sovereignty in exchange for the abandonment of nuclear weapons. But now this document is not working, so the country’s security can be ensured either by NATO membership or nuclear weapons.
“Which of these great nuclear powers has suffered? All of them? No, only one, Ukraine. Who gave up nuclear weapons? All of them? No. Only one. Who? Ukraine. Who is at war today? Ukraine. And that’s why we do it this way, and in a conversation with Trump, I told him: “We have this situation. Either Ukraine will have nuclear weapons, and this will protect us. Or we must have some kind of alliance. Apart from NATO, we do not know any effective alliances today. NATO countries are not at war today. NATO countries are not at war. People are all living in NATO countries. And thank God! That is why we choose NATO, not nuclear weapons. We choose NATO”. And I believe that Donald Trump heard me in this case. He said: “You have fair arguments,” Zelensky said.
On the same day, BILD’s open data analyst Julian Röpke, who recently visited Ukraine, a senior Ukrainian official told the media and other members of a narrow circle of politicians and officials that Ukraine would not accept a second Russian military offensive on Kyiv. In this case, Ukraine’s nuclear arsenal, which the country voluntarily abandoned in the 1990s, would be restored.
“We have the materials, we have the knowledge. If there is an order, it will take us only a few weeks to get the first bomb. The West should think less about Russia’s red lines and much more about our red lines,” BILD quoted a Ukrainian official involved in arms supplies as saying on condition of anonymity.
The President’s Office responded to the BILD article. Advisor to the Presidential Office Dmytro Lytvyn called the media’s loud statement about nuclear weapons in Ukraine in two weeks “nonsense.”
According to Dmytro Lytvyn, it has long been possible to confuse the words of Bild military observer Julian Röpke with the statements of Russian propagandists. This is because both Röpke and Russian propaganda “throw the same nonsense into the information space.”
Russia has already reacted to BILD’s article on Ukraine and nuclear weapons.
“It’s complete nonsense, they have nothing to back it up. There are no competencies, no materials, no equipment. Fairy tales that it is possible to create nuclear weapons from nuclear fuel waste are fairy tales for the uneducated… Real nuclear weapons are absolutely excluded,” said Andrey Kartapolov, chairman of the State Duma Defense Committee.
Kartapalov also reiterated the thesis of Russian propagandists that Ukraine can only create a “dirty” nuclear bomb. But Russia is allegedly monitoring and controlling the situation. The State Duma deputy also took the opportunity to once again threaten Ukraine’s allies, including the United States.
