US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan was asked to comment on last month’s New York Times article
The Biden administration on Sunday denied the possibility of providing nuclear weapons to Ukraine.
The return of nuclear weapons to Ukraine, which it handed over in the early 1990s (as part of its independence from the USSR) is not considered part of the United States’ military support efforts, Jake Sullivan, the US National Security Adviser, said in an interview on ABC News.
Sullivan was asked to comment on a New York Times article last month that said some Biden administration officials are reportedly acknowledging the possibility of returning to Ukraine the nuclear capability it abandoned after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
“That is not under consideration, no. What we’re doing is providing various conventional capabilities to Ukraine so that they can defend themselves effectively and ‘fight’ the Russians, not (giving them) a nuclear capability,” he told ABC.
Last week, Russia said the idea was “utter insanity” and that preventing such a scenario was one of the reasons why Moscow sent troops to Ukraine.
Kiev inherited nuclear weapons from the Soviet Union after its collapse in 1991, but handed them over under a 1994 agreement, the Budapest Memorandum, in exchange for security assurances from Russia, the United States and Britain.
Source :Skai
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