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“We will not allow a new Russian attack on Kyiv. We have everything we need to build a nuclear bomb,” Ukraine is considering rebuilding its nuclear arsenal • War in Ukraine (ua-stena.info)
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Ukraine is seriously considering the possibility of restoring nuclear weapons. This is reported by Bild with reference to a source.

“We have the materials, we have the knowledge. If there is an order, it will only take us a few weeks to get the first bomb,” said a Ukrainian official.

And Western countries should think less about Russia’s red lines and much more about Ukraine’s red lines.

According to analyst Julian Repke, a condition for restoring the nuclear weapons Ukraine has surrendered could be a second attempt by the Russian Federation to go after Kyiv.

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[-] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 149 points 1 day ago

Didn't Ukraine give up its nukes specifically under the condition that Russia would leave them alone as a free independent nation? Seems those terms went out the window years ago.

[-] HappycamperNZ@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago

And that the US would protect them if attacked.

'93 Budapest protocol I believe

[-] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 5 points 1 day ago

Ah I wasn't aware of that part of the deal. I wonder if they're threatening nukes because they're getting nervous that Trump might get re-elected and not honor that deal?

[-] Madison420@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

They're threatening to build nukes because they have nukes, I believe both France and Israel came out as nuclear nations in the same "we'll just float becoming a nuclear nation and see what happens."

There's still Soviet nuclear material missing and Ukraine has both mines and the know how to assemble older nukes anyway because that was done to some extent in Ukraine during the Soviet Union.

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