Zelenskyy called Ukraine's renunciation of nuclear weapons "a deception and a big mistake"
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The President stated that the Budapest Memorandum was unfair due to the lack of guarantees. Ukraine did not receive NATO membership or protection from other states.
NATO membership is the least Ukraine's leaders should have received in exchange for giving up their nuclear arsenal in the 1990s. Instead, Ukraine received nothing, Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in an interview for The Rest Is Politics podcast, UNN reports.
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When Ukraine agreed to give up nuclear weapons, the price the other side had to pay should have been fair. What did we get? Nothing. It was an unfair game and a big mistake
He added: it was a huge mistake not only on the part of Ukraine, but also on the part of other signatories of the Budapest Memorandum.
These are nuclear powers. If they asked you to give up nuclear weapons, they should have provided you with a security umbrella. Perhaps a nuclear umbrella. In the end, it was all a deception. A significant part of our nuclear weapons was transferred to Russia. For example, strategic aircraft that Russia is now using against us in this war
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