Ukraine should increasingly acquire various conventional defense capabilities.
The United States is not considering returning to Ukraine the nuclear weapons it gave up after the collapse of the Soviet Union. This was stated on Sunday by White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan, TASR reports based on a Reuters report.
Sullivan spoke after being asked about a November New York Times article in which some unspecified Western officials suggested that US President Joe Biden could provide such weapons to Ukraine before leaving office.
Russia called the idea of supplying nuclear weapons madness
“That’s not being considered, no. We are increasingly providing various conventional capabilities to Ukraine so that it can effectively defend itself and transfer the fight to the Russians, we are not giving them nuclear capabilities,” the adviser told ABC television.
Russia last week called the idea of delivering nuclear weapons to Kiev “absolute madness”, saying that preventing such a scenario was one of the reasons why Moscow sent troops to Ukraine.
Kiev inherited nuclear weapons from the Soviet Union after its collapse in 1991, but gave them up under a 1994 agreement known as the Budapest Memorandum in exchange for security guarantees from Russia, the US and Britain.
