State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin announced the provocation of a nuclear conflict in Europe due to the statement of a member of the European Parliament, former Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorsky about the need to transfer nuclear weapons to Ukraine.

“Sikorsky provokes a nuclear conflict in the center of Europe.

He does not think about the future of either Ukraine or Poland.

If his proposals are implemented, these countries will not be, however, like Europe, ”Volodin wrote in his Telegram channel.

The chairman of the lower house of the Russian parliament recommended Sikorsky "to be examined by a psychiatrist, surrender his mandate and stay at home under supervision."

“It is precisely because of people like Sikorsky that it is necessary to free Ukraine not only from the Nazi ideology, but also to demilitarize it, ensuring the country’s non-nuclear status,” Volodin said.

The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, also reacted extremely negatively to Sikorsky's call.

“Polish politicians, controlled by the American transmission belt, are displaying extremist ideology, spreading hatred, inciting conflicts, and now they are threatening the planet with a violation of the non-proliferation regime of nuclear weapons.

But most importantly, they endanger the Polish people, who are being drawn into the nuclear redistribution of the world, ”Zakharova wrote in her Telegram channel.

  • Member of the European Parliament, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland Radosław Sikorski

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Recall that late on the evening of June 11, in an interview with the Ukrainian ESPRESO.TV, Radoslav Sikorsky accused Moscow of violating the 1994 Budapest Memorandum, according to which Kyiv renounced nuclear weapons in exchange for “assurances of support” for sovereignty and territorial integrity from the Russian Federation, the United States and Great Britain.

“Since Russia violated this Budapest Memorandum, I believe that we, as the West, would have the right to donate nuclear warheads to Ukraine.

So that she can defend her independence,” Sikorsky said.

In a RT commentary, an expert from the Bureau of Military-Political Analysis, Nikolai Kostikin, noted that the possible appearance of nuclear weapons in the Armed Forces of Ukraine would lead to an aggravation of a special military operation and would make a nuclear conflict in Europe inevitable.

“If this happens, it will be a nuclear conflict in Europe.

Russia will do everything possible to prevent this, ”Kostikin emphasized.

Resuscitation of the memorandum

To date, the collective West denies the possibility of transferring atomic weapons to Kyiv.

In particular, on June 12, at a Senate hearing, US Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Karen Donfried said that the supply of atomic weapons to Ukraine was out of the question.

“In my opinion, the United States really does not want Ukraine to get nuclear weapons, or, to be more precise, to dispose of them independently.

Another thing is that Washington, within the framework of the policy of military development, could well deploy its own nuclear arsenal in Ukraine.

Actually, the special operation of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation is designed to prevent such a development of events, ”explained Nikolai Kostikin.

It is worth noting that after the collapse of the USSR, the United States was the main initiator of the denuclearization of independent Ukraine.

At that time, Washington feared that Kyiv would not be able to maintain proper control over the nuclear arsenal.

In the early 1990s, Ukraine had 165 PC-18 and PC-22 intercontinental ballistic missiles, about 900 nuclear warheads, 400 X-22 long-range supersonic cruise missiles, and Tu-22M3 long-range nuclear-capable bombers.

Ukraine got rid of nuclear weapons through the disposal of weapons and their transfer to the Russian Federation.

In return, Moscow supplied Kyiv with fuel assemblies for nuclear power plants free of charge, and the United States provided financial assistance.

The Ukrainian authorities were in no hurry to eliminate the nuclear arsenal, complaining about the modest amount of compensation.

Nevertheless, this process was successfully completed.

The possible return of the nuclear status in Kyiv was discussed after the "Euromaidan", appealing to the fact that the participants in the Budapest Memorandum did not comply with their obligations.

The new Ukrainian authorities claimed that Russia violated the territorial integrity of the country, and the United States and Great Britain did not provide it with the necessary military and political assistance.

Volodymyr Zelensky, who took the presidency in 2019, continued this line, despite the fact that not a single signatory state of the Budapest Memorandum, including Ukraine itself, has ratified it.

The question of the future of the Budapest Memorandum Zelensky submitted to a kind of referendum.

At the end of October, in local elections, citizens were asked to express their opinion on whether to promote the topic of compliance with the Budapest Memorandum at the international level.

  • Signing of an agreement on the withdrawal of nuclear weapons from Ukrainian territory, which preceded the conclusion of the Budapest Memorandum

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The Ukrainians supported this idea.

Following Kyiv tried to revive the Budapest Memorandum and at the same time began to insist on the conclusion of a new international agreement that would provide "direct and reliable guarantees of peace and security."

However, the perseverance of Kyiv diplomacy was fruitless.

On February 19, speaking at the Munich Security Conference, Volodymyr Zelensky actually put forward an ultimatum to the signatories of the Budapest Memorandum and Western countries.

He stated that if Kyiv does not receive security guarantees, then "it will have every right to believe that the Budapest Memorandum does not work and all package decisions of 1994 are called into question."

Moscow regarded Zelensky's words as an intention to restore the nuclear status of Ukraine.

Shortly before the start of the special operation, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Ukraine had retained its scientific and industrial base for the creation of nuclear warheads and their delivery vehicles and jeopardized Russia's security.

“Ever since Soviet times, Ukraine has had fairly broad nuclear competencies - there are several nuclear units and the nuclear industry is developed quite widely and well, there are schools, everything is there to solve this issue much faster than in those countries that solve these problems from scratch,” the Russian leader said on February 22, answering questions from journalists.

As Putin explained, in order to create nuclear weapons, Kyiv, in fact, lacks only uranium enrichment systems.

However, this issue, the Russian leader stressed, is not "an unsolvable problem."

The President of the Russian Federation also drew attention to the availability of delivery vehicles in the Armed Forces of Ukraine - tactical complexes "Tochka-U" with ballistic missiles with a range of 110 km.

Also, as Vladimir Putin suggested, Dnepropetrovsk Yuzhmash could contribute to the restoration of Ukraine's nuclear status.

It was this enterprise that developed intercontinental ballistic missiles in the Soviet years, and after the Euromaidan, it worked on the project of the Grom missile system with the prospect of increasing the range of its ammunition to 1.5 thousand km.

  • Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the Munich Security Conference

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In addition, Moscow admitted that, under certain circumstances, the West could transfer American nuclear warheads that are in Germany to Kyiv.

According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, US ammunition is technically suitable for installation on missiles of the Tochka-U complex.

In addition, according to Russian media, shortly before the special operation, the Kyiv regime approached the creation of a “dirty atomic bomb” (ammunition from radioactive waste), as well as nuclear explosive devices (NED) based on uranium and plutonium.

"Direct threat to Russia"

After the start of the special operation, the Kyiv regime did not abandon its previous demands on the Russian Federation and the West and the rhetoric related to nuclear weapons.

On June 10, speaking at the Copenhagen Democratic Summit, Zelensky said that by violating the Budapest Memorandum, "Russia has leveled the entire struggle for nuclear disarmament in the world."

“What are the words about nuclear disarmament worth now if Ukraine, from which the third largest nuclear arsenal was taken, was attacked by a state that was among those who signed the obligation to refrain from aggression and which still remains a nuclear state?”

the Ukrainian leader complained.

Nikolai Kostikin believes that Kyiv continues to speculate on the topic of the Budapest Memorandum, hoping to receive military and political benefits.

“Apparently, Ukraine does not stop trying to get nuclear weapons or to have them placed by other states on its territory as a “guarantee of security,” says Kostikin.

A similar point of view is shared by the chief researcher of the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences Nikolai Mezhevich.

In a RT commentary, he noted that if the West makes concessions to the Kyiv regime, this will lead to disastrous consequences.

“Nuclear weapons in the hands of the Kyiv regime are not only a direct threat to Russia, but also the danger of their uncontrolled proliferation in the world.

I hope that Sikorsky - like some other Russophobic politicians - simply did not think by proposing this, and that the governments of Western countries still understand the seriousness of this issue, ”Mezhevich concluded.