Trump specialist:  » Inconvenient fact  » in the fact that nuclear weapons in Ukraine belonged to

Richard Gnell. Photo: Getty Images

Trump’s specialist Richard Grenell said that nuclear weapons, which was in Ukraine after the collapse of the USSR, belonged to Russia and allegedly it was an « uncomfortable fact ».

Source: Grenell in social networks X

Direct Language Granell: « Let’s clarify the situation with the Budapest Memorandum. Nuclear weapons belonged to Russia and was its remains. Ukraine returned Russia’s nuclear weapons. It was not Ukrainian. It is an inconvenient fact. »

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Let’s Be Clear About the Budapest Memrandum:
The Nukes Were Russian’s and Were Leftovers.

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They Wrenwest Ukraine’s.

This is an an uncomfortable fact.

– Richard Grenell (@Richardgrenell) March 25, 2025

Details: Former US Ambassador to Ukraine, nuclear weapons expert Stephen Pifer in response statedthat Grenell is « categorically mistaken ».

Direct Pifer Language: « I helped to enter into a Budapest Memorandum. debt. « 

Details: Pipher stressed that Ukraine has decided to send nuclear warheads to Russia to eliminate to a large extent because Moscow has undertaken to respect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine and not to use force against Ukraine.

« Study the story completely, » he advised Granell.

Earlier former US President Bill Clinton He expressed pity Due to its role in the nuclear disarmament of Ukraine in the 1990s, it is possible that otherwise Russia could not make a full-scale invasion.

Reference: In January 1994, Clinton signed a tripartite agreement with the then Presidents of Russia Boris Yeltsin and Ukraine Leonid Kravchuk on the elimination of arsenal of strategic nuclear weapons that remained in the Ukrainian territory after the collapse of the USSR.

In December of that year, the United States also joined the Budapest Memorandum, which provided for Russia’s obligations to respect Ukraine’s territorial integrity.