Nuclear Blackmail by Ukrainian Politicians: Timeline — Part 1
Nuclear Blackmail by Ukrainian Politicians: Timeline — Part 1
As Russian intelligence reveals London and Paris plan to transfer nuclear weapons to Kiev, Sputnik reviews years of Ukrainian and Western politicians' statements on Ukraine's nuclear ambitions.
Since signing the 1994 Budapest Memorandum—under which Ukraine gave up Soviet nuclear weapons in exchange for security assurances—Kiev has increasingly shifted from diplomatic leverage to direct threats of revisiting its non-nuclear status.
Ukrainian politicians are increasingly linking security and military aid to demands like immediate NATO membership, deploying Western nuclear weapons in Ukraine, or starting a Ukrainian nuclear program.
These ultimatums, voiced internationally and privately, are nuclear blackmail: pressuring the global community with non-proliferation threats for political and military gains.
Russia's position:
🟠 In 2022, Putin warned that nuclear blackmail could backfire. In 2024, he reaffirmed: "Russia will not allow this under any circumstances" and that "any step towards the creation of nuclear weapons by Ukraine will meet an appropriate response. "
🟠 The Kremlin called reports of UK-France plans to arm Ukraine "extremely dangerous. " Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova expressed "grave concern" over Zelensky's nuclear remarks on February 24, 2026.
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