US Says Providing Nuclear Weapons to Ukraine Not Under Consideration Following Putin's Threat To Retaliate

Although Ukraine possessed nuclear weapons after the Soviet Union fell in 1991, the Budapest Memorandum agreement was made in 1994 during which Ukraine agreed to give up the weapons.

WASHINGTON - The White House says that giving Ukraine nuclear weapons again is "not under consideration" after independent journalist Kyle Becker posted on social media that the New York Times had buried a report that the Biden administration was considering doing so.

U.S. President Clinton, Russian President Yeltsin, and Ukrainian President Kravchuk after signing the Trilateral Statement in Moscow on 14 January 1994.

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Becker's post featured a video of an alleged New York Times report being scrolled, along with the following text:

Kyle Becker: BOMBSHELL. The New York Times buries in a report that the Biden administration is considering the return of Nuclear Weapons to Ukraine. "So U.S. and European officials are discussing deterrence as a possible security guarantee for Ukraine, such as stockpiling a conventional arsenal sufficient to strike a punishing blow if Russia violates a cease-fire. Several officials even suggested that Mr. Biden could return nuclear weapons to Ukraine that were taken from it after the fall of the Soviet Union. That would be an instant and enormous deterrent. But such a step would be complicated and have serious implications." The nuclear brinksmanship is being framed as an act of "deterrence," but it would drastically escalate the conflict. Moscow is sure to consider such an action as a betrayal of Post-Soviet agreements and a direct provocation. Russian president Vladimir Putin recently lowered the threshold for using nuclear weapons; a major attack on Russia with conventional missiles, drones or aircraft could trigger a nuclear response. The Biden administration can't leave office soon enough.

On Sunday, while speaking to ABC, White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said that the United States is not considering this option after Russia called the idea "absolute insanity" and that preventing such a scenario was one of the reasons Russia carried out its operation within Ukraine in the first place.

"That is not under consideration. No. What we are doing is surging various conventional capacities to Ukraine so that they can effectively defend themselves and take the fight to the Russians, not nuclear capability," Sullivan said.

Although Ukraine Possessed Nuclear Weapons Before The Fall Of The Soviet Union, It Gave Up The Weapons After The Budapest Memorandum Agreement Was Reached In 1994: