US will not return nuclear weapons to Ukraine: Jake Sullivan

The last Ukrainian city to host nuclear weapons regrets having given them up

Pervomaisk in southern Ukraine was one of those Soviet towns officially closed to the outside world. Local residents were allowed to visit, but few others, recalls Tania Stepul. The 54-year-old grocery store owner was born and spent her childhood just a few miles from the command center of the 46th Division of the Soviet 43rd Red Banner Missile Army. Stepul lived surrounded by perimeters protected by electrified barbed wire, minefields, machine …

White House comments on reports of nukes for Ukraine

Moscow has warned that the transfer of such weapons to Kiev would be treated as a nuclear attack. The US is not considering giving Ukraine nuclear arms, National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan has said. Last month, a New York Times report claimed that some officials in Washington wanted to arm Kiev with atomic weapons. Speaking to ABC News on Sunday, Sullivan said that the idea is "not under consideration." "What we are doing is surging various …

When Ukraine gave up world's 3rd-largest nuclear arsenal, did it set stage for Russian invasion?

In the 1990s, Ukraine gave up the third-largest nuclear weapons arsenal in the world in lieu of security guarantees. Now, in the third year of a war with Russia, the security guarantees lay in tatters in the absence of nuclear deterrence.