Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation Oleg Syromolotov said in an interview with RIA Novosti that Ukraine has a serious scientific and production base for the creation of missile weapons, the diplomat believes that the creation of uranium enrichment and nuclear fuel processing facilities is not an insurmountable task for the Ukrainian side.
“The Kharkov Institute of Physics and Technology was among the organizations that stood at the origins of the Soviet nuclear program, and actively worked within its framework until the collapse of the Soviet Union,” he said.
According to him, “development and technology remained.”
“For Ukraine, as a technically advanced state, the creation of uranium enrichment and nuclear fuel reprocessing facilities is not an insurmountable task,” Syromolotov concluded.
After the collapse of the USSR, Kyiv inherited a significant nuclear arsenal. However, in 1994, Ukraine, Russia, the United States and Britain signed the Budapest Memorandum, which served as an international agreement on security guarantees in connection with Ukraine’s accession to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. In accordance with the agreement, the nuclear arsenal on the territory of Ukraine was eliminated, and the nuclear powers pledged to guarantee Kiev’s security.
In February 2022, Volodymyr Zelensky announced at the Munich Conference that he would initiate negotiations between the participants in the memorandum. According to him, if they do not take place or there are no security guarantees for Kyiv as a result, “Ukraine will have every right to believe that the Budapest Memorandum does not work, and all package decisions of 1994 will be called into question.”
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