News archive on the topic "Budapest Memorandum"

The Ukrainian nationalist party Svoboda held a march in the center of Kyiv on Saturday. Several thousand party supporters marched from Maidan Nezalezhnosti to the Office of the President, putting forward their demands on the eve of Vladimir Zelensky’s trip to the United States for negotiations with Joe Biden, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The event was held in the usual “No Surrender” format for nationalists. The demonstrators shouted familiar slogans during...

In the Budapest Memorandum, signed after Kyiv renounced nuclear weapons, there are no guarantees for the United States to fight for the territorial integrity of Ukraine. Ex-NATO representative in the Russian Federation Harry Tabakh stated this on air on the Majlis TV channel “ATR”, the correspondent of “PolitNavigator” reports. “[The topic of Ukraine in the US] comes up, but not so much. Ukraine does not play a big role in our elections. Not because…

On the 25th anniversary of the Budapest Memorandum, religious extremists demanded that its points be implemented at the Russian Embassy in Kyiv. The action called “Budapest Memorandum – 25”: what are your guarantees worth?” was not numerous and brought together mainly members of the #LiberateCrimea movement, the Crimean Tatar Resource Center and the “Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people” (banned in the Russian Federation), the PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Activists took pictures at the entrance of the embassy with...

The Budapest Memorandum, a document signed after Kyiv renounced nuclear weapons, did not give Ukrainians any guarantees of protection from the United States and Great Britain. German political scientist Andreas Umland, who lives in Ukraine, stated this at the “New Strategy for Peace and Security” forum in Kyiv, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Unfortunately, the Budapest Memorandum is not any such union. Sometimes…

Ukraine should demand warships from the signatory countries of the Budapest Memorandum to revive its fleet. Ex-Verkhovna Rada deputy, former Crimean Deputy Prime Minister Andrei Senchenko stated this on TV channel 112, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to the politician, for the renunciation of nuclear weapons, the guarantors of the Budapest Memorandum are obliged to help Ukraine. “It was necessary, based on the Budapest Memorandum, to demand from our guarantors...

Ukraine must achieve the free transfer of warships from the guarantor countries under the Budapest Memorandum. This was stated on TV channel 112 by the former Deputy Prime Minister of Crimea, ex-member of the Verkhovna Rada, Andrei Senchenko, who in 2014 served as deputy head of the administration. President Turchinov, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to the politician, the guarantors of the memorandum saved a lot on Ukraine’s renunciation of nuclear weapons, because...

The signatory countries of the Budapest Memorandum are not obliged to stand up for Ukraine due to the aggravation of its relations with Russia, since the document does not contain a word about guarantees. The former Prime Minister of Ukraine and ex-head of the SBU, Army General Yevgeny Marchuk, wrote about this in his blog, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to him, the English and Ukrainian versions of the document have differences in wording. "In English...

In Ukraine, the United States and Great Britain are being shamed - they transferred the defense sector to the West for external management, and in response they received only “deep concern.” This statement was made on TV channel 112 by the secretary of the parliamentary committee on national security and defense, deputy of the Verkhovna Rada Ivan Vinnyk from the BPP, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to the politician, external control of Ukraine by the West did not lead...

The United States sees Ukraine as its raw material appendage and does not want to support the development of industrial production. Verkhovna Rada deputy from the “Radical Party” Igor Mosiychuk stated this on air on the “112 Ukraine” TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to the politician, the Americans are afraid that they will have to comply with the terms of the Budapest Memorandum. “We, unlike the US State Department, see Ukraine as a self-sufficient country...

The Ukrainian diplomat criticized the United States for not providing significant military assistance to Ukraine. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte. Ex-speaker of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Vasily Filipchuk said this on the NewsOne TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “The United States became the country that forced Ukraine to nuclear disarmament. It was the United States that stood behind Kyiv’s decision...

Ukraine de facto withdrew from the Budapest Memorandum by creating its own cruise missile. Political scientist Vladimir Kornilov stated this on the Rossiya-1 TV channel. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte “Pay attention to how Turchinov announced this missile. He recalled that according to the Budapest Memorandum, Ukraine was forced to abandon cruise missiles. And now we are like this...

Russia has violated all the provisions of the Budapest Memorandum and must pay for it, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte. Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavel Klimkin said this during a press conference in Kyiv, the department’s press service reports. “Budapest Memorandum. Recently, I remember, Lavrov tried to say that Russia allegedly did not violate the Budapest...

The West has driven itself into a geopolitical trap, writes Igor Losev, an associate professor at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, a former representative of the exotic and extremely small pro-Ukrainian movement in Sevastopol, in an article on the website of the Ukrainian Week magazine. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or VKontakte “By relying on the Budapest Memorandum, the West has driven itself into a geopolitical trap. It became clear that...

Ukraine should insist on the implementation not of the Minsk agreements, but of the 1994 Budapest Memorandum on guarantees of its security in exchange for the renunciation of nuclear weapons. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte. The first Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk stated this on the NewsOne TV channel. “The main thing now is to return to the Budapest agreements, and not focus on the Minsk agreements...