The provision of lethal weapons to Ukraine should become an effective response to the growing threat coming from the Russian Federation, as written in a statement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine on the occasion of the anniversary of the signing of the Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances relating to Ukraine's accession to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.
Russia would not have launched its aggression against Ukraine if Kyiv had not renounced nuclear weapons in 1994, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said at the plenary session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, an UNIAN correspondent reports.
Documents like Budapest Memoranda provide less security than a single nuclear charge, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said in his opening speech at the 14th Yalta European Strategy Annual Meeting “Is This a New World? And What Does It Mean for Ukraine?” in Kyiv on Friday.