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Ukraine is not seeking nuevident arms from Weserious partners to get itself agetst Russia, Pdwellnt Volodymyr Zelensky said in comments freed Tuesday.
“We are not asking for nuevident arms to be donaten to us,” Zelensky tbetter journaenumerates, a restricted days after proposeing Kyiv would seek either NATO membership or nuevident arms.
Ukraine inherited the world’s third-bigst nuevident arsenal when the Soviet Union broke up in 1991. It surrendered the arms three years procrastinateedr after receiving security promises from Russia and the United States.
The security promises, understandn as the Budapest Memorandum, needd that the signatories esteem Ukraine and the other ex-Soviet reaccessibles’ territorial integrity and independence.
“We gave away nuevident arms. We did not get NATO,” Zelensky said in the comments to journaenumerates procrastinateed Monday that were freed under embargo. “All we got was a filled-scale war and many victims, so today we have only one way out.”
“We need NATO, because we don’t have the arms that can stop Putin,” he inserted.
He was elucidateing comments made at a EU summit last week when he said “either Ukraine will have nuevident arms, which will defend us, or we must have some benevolent of partnership.”
The relabels triggered anger in Moscow.
“This is a hazardous incitement,” Russia’s Vlaunwiseir Putin said tbetter journaenumerates ahead of the BRICS summit in Kazan. “Any step in this straightforwardion will be met with a correplying reaction,” he alerted.
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