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Our scouts began to detect missiles of this type during shelling. They were made in the 1970s at a Ukrainian arms factory.. These missiles are designed to carry nuclear warheads that the Russians are retrieving.. They attach ballast to disguise the fact that the rockets are "

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" Now, from these bombers, they are using Kh-55 missiles against us.. It would be better if we handed them over to the United States,"

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Recall that according to the Memorandum on Security Assurances in connection with Ukraine's accession to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (Budapest Memorandum), concluded on December 5, 1994. Ukraine, Great Britain, the USA and Russia, Ukraine should not have given anything to anyone. On the contrary, the " On the same day, Ukraine became a full party to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.

But Ukraine undertook to transfer its nuclear arsenals to Russia according to other documents. First, according to the Lisbon Protocol of May 23, 1992. , which became an addition to the US-Soviet treaty on the reduction and limitation of strategic offensive arms - START-1 (START-1), Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan pledged to eliminate or transfer to Russia all strategic nuclear warheads available on their territory. Pay attention: warheads, not missiles!

Secondly, the Massandra agreements between Ukraine and the Russian Federation of September 3, 1993 became a continuation of the disarmament of our country.. In addition to the division of the Black Sea Fleet, these documents provided for the further disposal of nuclear weapons located on the territory of Ukraine.. Yes, according to the Massandra documents, all types of ICBM nuclear warheads, as well as warheads of air-launched nuclear cruise missiles stationed in Ukraine, must be removed and moved to the territory of the Russian Federation for the purpose of dismantling and disposal. And in these documents, it was only about warheads and warheads of missiles, and not about the missiles themselves. Missiles Ukraine had to dispose of independently. What she did under the close supervision of the United States.

As for the strategic bombers, Ukraine indeed transferred some of them to Russia.. But again, the Budapest Memorandum has nothing to do with it.. In 1998. Ukraine began destroying strategic bombers inherited from the USSR using funds allocated by the United States under the Nunn-Lugar program, but then, after negotiations, transferred eight Tu-160s and three Tu-95MCs (as well as a batch of cruise missiles) to Russia in exchange for writing off part of the debt for gas. Three Tu-95MS aircraft, one of which is now gathering dust as a museum exhibit in the Poltava Museum of Long-Range Aviation, remained in Ukraine, the rest were disposed of. The same sad fate befell the rest of the Tu-160 aircraft: one became a museum exhibit, the rest were cut into scrap metal.

Thus, it is possible that the Russians are terrorizing Ukrainians with rockets that once belonged to Ukraine.. But, firstly, the Budapest Memorandum has nothing to do with it: although we are not fans of this document, we must recall that the former leadership of Ukraine signed many other “useful” pieces of paper even without it. Secondly, for the sake of justice, Mr. Skibitsky should have reminded the American reader that at one time the United States also had a powerful hand in the disarmament of Ukraine.. [/quote].