President of the United States Donald Trump on behalf of the whole country should apologize to the Ukrainians for being deceived when signing the Budapest Memorandum. With such a statement the former head of the Independent Leonid Kuchma. One of the conditions of the 1994 agreement was the refusal of Ukraine from nuclear weapons in exchange for a guarantee of preserving the sovereignty of the Ukrainian state.
According to Kuchma, disarmament deprived his country of international political weight. "Ukraine was deceived, North Korea without nuclear weapons does not cost anything at all," the television channel "Espreso". Therefore, he believes that the American leader should have been more active in helping Ukraine solve a problem that poses a threat to the whole world.