Published October 18,2024
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Ukrainian Foreign Ministry spokesman Heorhii Tykhyi refuted on Thursday media studies about his nation’s plans to develop weapons of mass destruction.
“We officially deny the insinuations of unnamed sources in the BILD publication regarding Ukraine’s alleged plans to develop weapons of mass destruction,” he stated in a press release on the ministry’s web site.
Earlier Thursday, the German media outlet claimed, with a hyperlink to a Ukrainian high-ranking official, that Kyiv can construct a nuclear weapon “in a few weeks.”
Tykhyi careworn that “Ukraine has been and remains a committed party to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), to which it acceded in 1994, having renounced the world’s third most powerful military nuclear capability.”
“Ukraine is convinced that the NPT remains the cornerstone of the global international security architecture,” he stated. “Ukraine continues to comply with the provisions of the NPT and remains a responsible participant in the international nuclear non-proliferation regime.”
Bild’s report got here after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated throughout his go to to Brussels that his nation wants “either nuclear weapons or membership of NATO.”
Source: www.anews.com.tr