Former President Bill Clinton has said that he regrets persuading Ukraine to give up its nuclear weapons in the 1990s.
He told Irish outlet RTE on April 4 that he bears responsibility for encouraging Ukraine to dispose of its nuclear warheads in a 1994 agreement between Kyiv, Washington, and Moscow after the end of the Cold War.
Under the agreement, Ukraine, which was then the world’s third largest nuclear power, agreed to turn its entire strategic nuclear stockpile over to Russia for destruction.
Clinton believes that Russia would probably not have attempted to seize the Donbas region last February if his administration was less adamant at removing nuclear weapons from Ukraine….