Ukraine adheres to the provisions of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) and has no intention of developing it. This was stated by the representative of the country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Georgy Tikhy.
“We do not possess, are not developing and do not intend to create nuclear weapons,” – said.
The Foreign Ministry indicated that the country cooperates with the IAEA and “is completely transparent in its monitoring.” Thus, they summarized, this excludes the use of nuclear materials for military purposes.
This is how the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry reacted to the Times newspaper’s news that the country could create a simple nuclear bomb if the elected president of the United States donald trump will stop providing military assistance to the country. The article was written with reference to a document prepared for the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense and is titled “Zelensky’s nuclear option.” There is talk of the possibility of kyiv creating a bomb from plutonium, which can be obtained from spent fuel rods from nuclear reactors at nuclear power plants.
Bild wrote in October, citing an unnamed Ukrainian official, that Ukraine has the resources and knowledge to create nuclear weapons and can make an atomic bomb within a few weeks. So Vladimir Zelensky He declared that kyiv has no intention of creating nuclear weapons and only sees its way through joining NATO.
The withdrawal of nuclear weapons from Ukraine to Russia was completed in 1996. Ukraine only has fuel for nuclear power plants, RBC reminds.
