Hisham kadri Ahmed
In the wake of Russia’s annexation of the Crimean Peninsula in 2014 and its subsequent full-scale military invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, a compelling argument has gained traction among high-ranking diplomats and analysts in Ukraine and across Europe. They contend that such Russian aggression might never have materialized had Kyiv not agreed to dismantle its nuclear arsenal in 1994. It was in December of that year, under concerted pressure from U.S. President Bill Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsin, that Ukraine signed the Budapest Memorandum. Under this agreement, Kyiv committed to surrendering its nuclear stockpile and transferring it to Russia for decommissioning, as part of its international obligation to join the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT).
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