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Ukraine threatens to build nuclear weapons to ward off Russia threat If West doesn’t shut down Putin
Apr 16, 2021
UKRAINE has warned that it could build nuclear weapons to combat Russia if the West does not allow it to join NATO.
This comes as Vladimir Putin has deployed tens of thousands of troops and tanks to the Ukrainian border in a worrying escalation of tensions.
Ukraine was formerly a nuclear state with 176 ballistic missiles and 44 strategic bombers following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.
However, the country agreed to eliminate its nukes in return for legally-binding security guarantees from Britain, the US and Russia.
But with Putin threatening to invade, seven years after he annexed Crimea using armed militias, Ukraine’s ambassador to Germany Andriy Melnik said the country is considering all its options.
He said: “Ukraine has no other choice - either we are part of an alliance such as NATO and are doing our part to make this Europe stronger, or we have the only option – to arm by ourselves and maybe think about nuclear status again.
“How else can we guarantee our defence?”
He added: “We must do everything possible to ensure that Putin will not attack us tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. “
NATO is an alliance of western powers was set up in the aftermath of World War II to combat the threat of the Soviet Union.
Mr Melnik said that Ukraine was a NATO member in 2014, then the annexation of Crimea would not have happened.
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