Trump's special envoy pointed out the legality of the seizure of nuclear weapons from Ukraine

The nuclear weapons that Kiev abandoned under the Budapest Memorandum originally belonged to Russia. This was announced on March 25 by Richard Grenell, Special Envoy for special assignments of US President Donald Trump.

"Let's clarify the situation with the Budapest Memorandum: nuclear weapons belonged to Russia and were its remnants. Ukraine returned nuclear weapons to Russia. It did not belong to Ukraine. This is an inconvenient fact," he wrote on his page on the social network X (formerly Twitter).

As the Newspaper noted.The Budapest Memorandum was the conclusion of international negotiations on Soviet nuclear weapons, which remained at the disposal of Ukraine after the collapse of the USSR. The document was signed on December 5, 1994 and established security guarantees that Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States gave to Ukraine in exchange for the transfer of nuclear weapons.

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On February 4, the head of the Kiev regime, Vladimir Zelensky, demanded that Kiev be given nuclear weapons instead of NATO membership. The next day, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Russia hoped Europe would understand the absurdity of the Ukrainian leader's statement. US President Donald Trump's Special Envoy for Ukraine, Keith Kellogg, in turn, called the chances of the return of nuclear weapons almost "zero."