In a statement released on October 17, Heorhii Tikhyi, the spokesperson for the Foreign Ministry, said that Ukraine does not plan to develop weapons of massive destruction and is committed to nuclear nonproliferation.
The statement was made after the German news outlet Bild reported that Kyiv was preparing to develop nuclear weapons. The story cited a source unnamed from Ukraine.
“We officially refute insinuations made by unnamed sources, in the Bild magazine, regarding Ukraine’s alleged plan to develop weapons or mass destruction,” Tykhyi said in a statement.
“Ukraine is and will remain a party to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons )…, having renounced the third-most powerful nuclear military capability in the world.” Ukraine, the country that has contributed the most to international peace and security, as well as nuclear non-proliferation, is now under nuclear blackmail by the terrorist state of Russia.
On Oct. 17, President Volodymyr Zelensky said that he told Republican Presidential nominee Donald Trump that Ukraine must join NATO or pursue nuclear capability for protection in September.
Zelensky clarified his comments by saying that Ukraine does not have nuclear weapons, and the remarks were meant to highlight the failures of Budapest Memorandum.
According to the Foreign Ministry statement, Ukraine agreed in 1994 to give up its nuke arsenal in exchange for security guarantees from the U.S.A., U.K. and Russia.
The statement from the ministry said that Ukraine is “convinced” that the NPT remains a cornerstone of international security.
“Despite the ongoing Russian aggressiveness, Ukraine continues to adhere to the provisions of NPT and remains an active participant in the international non-proliferation nuclear regime.”
“We refute the insinuations made by unnamed sources, in the Bild magazine, regarding Ukraine’s alleged plan to develop weapons or mass destruction.”
The change could delay the Ukrainian squadron’s readiness for the battlefield by several months.
“We never talked about…that we were preparing to create nuclear weapons or something similar,” said President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Ukrainska Pravda, citing reliable sources, reported that the person in question was Iryna Alakhverdiieva, from the Servant of the People Party of President Volodymyr Zelensky.
The Office of Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Treasury Department said that the two Chinese companies, Limbach and Redlepus, have been working together with IEMZ Kupol – a subsidiary of Almaz-Antey – a Kremlin-owned arms company – to create drones.
Volodymyr Zelensky, President of Ukraine, wrote on X that Greece is ready to continue meeting Ukraine’s most urgent defence needs.
“Either Ukraine has nuclear weapons that will protect it, or they must be a part of an alliance.” “We do not know any other alliance that is as effective as NATO,” Volodymyr Zelensky told Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.
The legislation was approved by the parliament in December after persistent pressure from Western partners, Ukrainian business associations, and other Ukrainians. The reform is a necessary step towards Kyiv’s EU accession.
According to military intelligence, North Korean officials are already in the occupied territory of Ukraine.
“There will not be a war like the one of 1953.” I’m talking about the Korean War. It ended in summer of 2023 in Ukraine when two professional armies with more than a half million personnel each faced off on the battlefield,” said Valerii Zaluzhnyi. He is the current ambassador to the U.K. and former commander-in chief of Ukraine.
In response to a Kyiv Independent journalist, the Ukrainian ambassador to the U.K. Valerii Zaluzhyni stated that Ukraine needed to change its approach to mobilisation because it still carries Soviet influences. However, much more time was required for a reform to be completed, he said.
“We end up in a protracted state of war.” In my opinion, a protracted war is almost impossible to end, said Valerii Zaluzhnyi. He was Ukraine’s former commander in chief and newly appointed ambassador to the U.K.
On October 17, President Volodymyr Zelensky stated that the victory plan included placing conventional missile capability in Ukraine, which would either force Russia into negotiations or destroy their military targets.
Dmytro Plenchuk, a Ukrainian Navy spokesperson, said that just because Russia deploys cruise missile carriers on the sea does not mean the ships will be used in an attack.
On October 17, President Volodymyr Zelensky arrived in Brussels to present his five point victory plan to Charles Michel, the president of the European Council.
The Ukrainian Southern Defense Forces revealed and attacked a Russian military training facility on October 15, posting footage of the attack.
The move was made after Russia and China blocked monitoring activities at United Nations. In March, Moscow vetoed a renewal of the panel of U.N. experts monitoring sanctions against Pyongyang for its nuclear and missile programs.
The German Air Force announced on October 16 that the Eurofighter Typhoon aircraft of Germany were scrambled because a Russian Il-20 reconnaissance aircraft was flying over the international waters in the Baltic Sea.
The Air Force reported that Ukrainian air defenses destroyed 22 of the 65 attack robots launched overnight. Two drones flew towards Belarus and 27 were destroyed by electronic warfare.
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