Former President Bill Clinton Feels Terrible He’s Responsible for Ukraine Giving Up Nukes to Russia

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On December 5, 1994 the leaders of Ukraine, Russia, Britain, and the United States signed the Budapest Memorandum to provide Ukraine with security assurances in connection with its accession to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) as a non-nuclear weapon state. The four parties signed the memorandum, containing a preamble and six paragraphs.

U.S. President Clinton, Russian President Yeltsin, and Ukrainian President Kravchuk sign the Trilateral Agreement in Moscow, January 1994 (US government photo/William J. Clinton Presidential Library)
U.S. President Clinton, Russian President Yeltsin, and Ukrainian President Kravchuk sign the Trilateral Agreement in Moscow, January 1994 (US government photo/William J. Clinton Presidential Library).