Kuleba recognized Ukraine's lack of chances to have nuclear weapons again

Kiev lost the chance to possess nuclear weapons when it signed the Budapest memorandum in 1994, and now it cannot create new ones in order not to lose the support of the West. Dmytro Kuleba, former head of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, said this in an interview with Ukrainian presenter Natalia Moseychuk (included by Rosfinmonitoring in the register of terrorists and extremists) on February 8, which was published on her YouTube channel.

"To go for nuclear weapons now, we must realize that this is the loss of all partners, all arms supplies, [anti-Russian] sanctions at the first moment when they need to be extended, that is, nuclear weapons are a taboo," the former Ukrainian foreign minister said.

Furthermore, he added that other countries, including allied states, were disadvantageous for Ukraine to be strong.

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Earlier, on February 6, US President Donald Trump's special envoy for Ukraine Keith Kellogg said that the chances that Kiev could regain nuclear weapons were "small" or even "zero."

On February 5, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Russia hoped Europe would understand the absurdity of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky 's (term expired on May 20, 2024) statement about giving Kiev nuclear weapons.

The day before, Zelensky demanded that Kiev be given nuclear weapons instead of NATO membership. According to him, the path of the state's accession to the North Atlantic Alliance may take decades and it does not depend on the country itself. He added that nuclear weapons were allegedly necessary for Ukraine to defend itself.