RT ran an analysis piece on Friday documenting that, despite the claims made by Western officials and the compliant Western news media, the real nuclear risk emanates, not from Russia, but from the Kiev regime. It’s not that Kiev has nuclear weapons, but officials of the regime have proclaimed numerous times that it has the intention and the means of having nuclear weapons. RT notes, for example, that “the return of nuclear weapons” (to Ukraine after Kiev gave them up in the early 1990’s) is specifically cited as a goal in paragraph 2 of the Military Doctrine section in the program statement of the Patriot of Ukraine organization, while paragraph 7 of its Foreign Policy section reads: “The ultimate goal of Ukrainian foreign policy is world domination.” Patriot of Ukraine was created in 2014 by the notorious Andrey Biletsky, who formed it based on the ideology of the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion and had dreamed of Ukraine possessing nuclear weapons as far back as 2007.
Few more examples: In December, 2018, the former representative of the Ukrainian mission to NATO, Major General Pyotr Garashchuk, announced the real possibility of Ukraine creating its own nuclear weapons. In 2019, Aleksandr Turchinov, who usurped power in Ukraine in February of 2014, called Ukraine’s renunciation of nuclear weapons a “historic mistake.” Following him, in April 2021, the Ukrainian ambassador to Germany, Andrey Melnik, stated that if the West did not help Ukraine in its confrontation with Russia, the country would launch a nuclear program and create an atomic bomb. And on February 19, 2022, before the start of Russia’s special military operation, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky announced at the Munich Security Conference that Ukraine has the right to abandon the Budapest Memorandum, which proclaimed the country’s nuclear-free status.
RT also goes into some detail about Ukraine’s nuclear power plants, including reckless disregard for nuclear plant safety, and the nuclear research facilities in Kharkov to make the argument that Ukraine has not only the intent but the means to produce nuclear warheads which I won’t detail here.
“All these facts mean that present-day Ukraine is arguably a real threat to nuclear security not just in Europe, but on a global scale,” RT conlcudes. “It has everything it would take, from irresponsible people in charge of safety and security at nuclear sites, to the technical capabilities.
