Sergei Naryshkin, the head of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), told the press today that SVR had obtained intelligence showing that Ukraine was working on building its own nuclear weapons. Naryshkin stressed that President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s threats to abandon the Budapest Agreement, which gave up the nuclear weapons on its territory when the USSR disintegrated, were “not an empty promise.” Zelenskyy told the Munich Security Conference that he was considering getting nuclear weapons for Ukraine.
Naryshkin noted that Ukraine has preserved technical potential to create nuclear armaments and that this is higher than those of Iran and North Korea, according to Sputnik.
