Kravchuk told why Ukraine refused from nuclear weapons

The first President also noted that he could not then imagine that Russia will become our enemy.

If Ukraine has left at 200 nuclear warheads, which were inherited from the Soviet Union after 1997 could trigger “uncontrolled processes.”

The first President of Ukraine Leonid Kravchuk said in the comment to the journalist Roman bochkale. The journalist published a snippet of conversation on the page in Facebook.

To the question whether he considers that the rejection of the nuclear status was incorrect, Leonid Kravchuk said that there was no choice. Ukraine had more than 200 warheads. Shelf life expired in 1997. Next, you could start an uncontrolled process.

Yeltsin told me: Leon, want, leave them to themselves – remember Kravchuk.

In addition, the first President noted that the Budapest Memorandum, in his opinion could not guarantee the security of Ukraine, because it is only a Memorandum.

“Just a framework agreement, not even a contract. The parties confirmed their intentions. No specifics and enforcement mechanisms specified in the text, this Memorandum had not. So, what do you say we signed him? Well … It policy”, – Bochkala conversation with Kravchuk.

The first President also noted that he could not then imagine that Russia will become our enemy.

“And that, I think, a strategic mistake. Unlike the Baltic States, we are unable to identify the source of the greatest threat. More time was needed decommunization, Ukrainization. Everything that is happening just now. Instead, we got hooked on the Russian series. This I mean that our problems are the result of all years of independence. It is very easy to write off only one of Yanukovych. The roots are much deeper, Leonid Makarovich?” commented on the social network Roman Bochkala.

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