"Guarantees did not work": Georin told focus when nuclear weapons may appear in Ukraine

Ukraine has abandoned the third largest nuclear arsenal in the world, but the promised security guarantees have never worked. The deputy commander of the 3rd OSHBD considers that Kiev has the right to return nuclear weapons. Ukraine has abandoned the third largest nuclear arsenal in the world, trusting the power of the Budapest Memorandum.

The document was signed on December 5, 1994 by Presidents of Ukraine, Russia and the United States Leonid Kuchma, Boris Yeltsin and Bill Clinton, as well as British Prime Minister John Major. Washington led Kiev to this step for three years, instead, Ukraine was promised to help in the event of an attack. But security guarantees did not work.

According to the Deputy Commander of the 3rd OSHBR Maxim Zhorin, the most effective tool for his own safety-nuclear weapons and no guarantees will replace their own forces. "We have already seen how it was when we were taken away from nuclear weapons, we were promised safety-and where it is? None of the signatories who guaranteed us security . . . One of these countries at all attacked us, and others pretend that This is a false attack, conflict, "your own", etc. We have no security guarantees.

Said Georin. He stressed that the presence of nuclear weapons are some tools that accurately guarantee safety. The Major of the Armed Forces said that even before the start of a full -scale invasion, he was restored for nuclear status. He is convinced that it is not easy, but this potential can be realized in Ukraine. "We are not a country that threatens the world or something. We are a country that has faced with the fact that it was taken away from nuclear weapons and guarantees have not worked.

I believe that at this stage we have the right to return it ourselves. Of course, this We need to discuss with other world leaders, "he explained. According to Zhorin, the presence of at least tactical nuclear weapons would be a significant tool in any negotiations and national security. While it takes many years to restore a full nuclear complex, but tactical nuclear weapons are absolutely real today.

In particular, part of this is already in Ukraine, also preserved intellectual opportunities, and partial infrastructure has been preserved. "Of course, modern nuclear weapons, modern nuclear studies are different from those we have stopped. But all this can be restored, rebuilt and this will become a truly strong point of support," Maxim Zhorin added.