Ukraine Pushes for NATO Invite, Criticizes 30-Year-Old Security Deal

A statement from Kyiv’s foreign ministry lamented the 1994 Budapest Memorandum, under which Ukraine gave up its weapons following the collapse of the USSR.
Ukraine Pushes for NATO Invite, Criticizes 30-Year-Old Security Deal
A Russian tank fires toward Ukrainian positions on Nov. 22, 2024. Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP
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Pushing for an invitation to join NATO, Ukraine on Dec. 3 criticized a decades-old agreement under which the country gave up its nuclear weapons in exchange for security that, it says, never materialized.

Kyiv wants NATO members to invite the country to join the bloc at a meeting of the alliance’s foreign ministers that starts on Tuesday, as the Russian invasion of Ukraine grinds toward its three-year mark and Russia makes battlefield gains.

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