He assured that “we have no alternative but NATO.”
Volodymyr Zelensky
Ukraine is not preparing to create nuclear weapons.
Volodymyr Zelensky made this statement at a press conference with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, answering journalists' questions.
“We have never said that we are preparing to create nuclear weapons. I said that when the Budapest Memorandum was signed, the honorable countries of the nuclear club stipulated that Ukraine would give up its nuclear weapons. weapons and Ukraine would have guarantees of security and territorial integrity from these respected countries, among which were Russia, China, the United States,” Zelensky recalled his previous words.
He assured that “we have no alternative except NATO.”
“This is our signal. But we are not making nuclear weapons. Please do not change the message,” the Ukrainian president urged.
- On the same day, BILD published an article about the Ukrainian authorities considering the possibility of restoring nuclear weapons stockpiles, and that it would take several weeks to make the first bomb.
- The President's Office denied this information, and the head of the Center for Countering Disinformation at the National Security and Defense Council, Andriy Kovalenko, called “any” Western journalists' fantasies about Ukrainian nuclear weapons “fiction.”