"Dangerous provocation": Russia will not allow Ukraine to create nuclear weapons - Putin

I do not know if Ukraine is able to do it now. It is not so easy for Ukraine today. But there is no great difficulty here in general. Everything is clear how to do it. It's a dangerous provocation. What a step in this direction will meet the appropriate reaction, "Putin said. The Kremlin head also accused the leadership of Ukraine of repeated statements, allegedly made before the war, that the country should have nuclear potential.

"The political leadership of today's Ukraine has repeatedly, before the crisis has passed into the hot phase, stated that Ukraine would have to have nuclear weapons. He added that Russia is able to track any attempts by Kyiv to obtain a nuclear arsenal with Western allies, such as the United Kingdom, and that such actions cannot be hidden.

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky revealed the details of a conversation with a candidate for US President Donald Trump, with whom he met during his visit to the United States on September 27. Among other things, the policies discussed the security of Ukraine in the context of the Budapest Memorandum. According to the Ukrainian leader, Ukraine should either have a nuclear arsenal, or become a member of "some alliance", is meant by NATO.

"Or Ukraine will have nuclear weapons - and then it is a defense for us - or we must have some alliance. Today we do not know effective alliances. NATO countries do not fight, so we choose NATO, not nuclear weapons. I think I have heard me In this case, Donald Trump, "Zelensky said. In parallel, the German tabloid Bild has published material with reference to an unnamed Ukrainian official, arguing that Ukraine allegedly has materials for the creation of nuclear weapons.