The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia announced yesterday that the idea allegedly circulating in the West, according to which Washington should supply Ukraine with nuclear weapons, is "crazy" and that preventing such a scenario is one of the reasons why Moscow entered Ukraine.
The New York Times reported last Sunday that some unnamed Western officials suggested that US President Joe Biden could give Ukraine nuclear weapons before he leaves office.
Marija Zakharova, spokeswoman for the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, stated that it is in the interest of all responsible governments to ensure that such, as she called it, a "suicidal" scenario does not materialize.
"We consider it insane," Zaharova told reporters when asked about the topic.
"It is absolute madness imposed by the West on a certain part of the political establishment in Ukraine."
She accused Kiev of using the issue, which she called propaganda, to try to extract more aid from the West.
The "irresponsible actions" of Ukraine and its Western allies could bring the world "to the brink of disaster," Zakharova warned.
The Kremlin said on Tuesday that discussions in the West about arming Ukraine with nuclear weapons were "absolutely irresponsible", while senior Russian security official Dmitry Medvedev warned that Moscow could see such a move as tantamount to an attack on Russia, which could serve as the basis for a nuclear response. .
Reuters recalls that Ukraine inherited nuclear weapons from the Soviet Union after its collapse in 1991, but gave them up under a 1994 agreement, known as the Budapest Memorandum, in exchange for security guarantees from Russia, the United States and Great Britain.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has repeatedly expressed his dissatisfaction with the decision, claiming that it left his country without security. This is one of the reasons why he insists on Ukraine joining the NATO military alliance, which Moscow strongly opposes.
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