To justify the war, Russia created a fake about Ukraine’s 'nuclear program'
To justify the war of the Russian Federation against Ukraine, Russian propagandists allegedly claimed that Ukraine had its "nuclear program."
It has been reported by Interfax, RIA Novosti, and TASS.
Three Russian central news agencies at once have spread the disinformation with reference to "a well-placed source in one of the competent agencies of the Russian Federation."
This is how Russians have been trying to justify their attack against Ukraine and capture the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant and the defunct Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant.
"Straight after signing the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons in 1994 Ukraine, being a non-nuclear-weapon state, has started its RTD (research and technological development – ed.) to form a technological basis to be able to create its own nuclear weapons.
In 2014 following the well-known events in Ukraine Poroshenko issued a secret order to give these activities an explicit practical focus and rapid increase."
Russians allegedly claim that the scientists of the National Science Center Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology played a key role in creating nuclear explosive devices.
Their colleagues from other scientific institutes from all over Ukraine including the Institute for Safety Problems of Nuclear Power Plants in Chornobyl assisted them.
According to the propagandists, the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant area was used as a platform for developing nuclear weapons.
Citing the propagandists' so-called "source," "Ukraine has been realizing its programs both in nuclear and missile areas for more than two dozen years gradually approaching all necessary conditions for creating its own nuclear weapons."
Let us remember that Ukraine has never declared the restoration of its nuclear status.
It was on February 19 first when Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the President of Ukraine, told that if there were no security assurances, Ukraine would have the right "to consider that the Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances was not working and all the package decisions of 1994 were in doubt."
The Russian president Vladimir Putin immediately played the card adding this nuclear threat to his absurd arguments "to formally recognize the LPR and DPR" and to start the war against Ukraine, called "a special operation" by Russian propagandists.
Note
Back in 1991, Ukraine's nuclear arsenals were the world's third-biggest, but on June 2, 1996, our country lost its nuclear status.
The Budapest Memorandum of 1994 provided security assurances to Ukraine after it signed the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.
Though it was signed by the Russian Federation, the United Kingdom, and the United States, since 2014 the Russian Federation has recurrently committed acts of aggression against Ukraine, occupied its territories, and on February 24, 2022, started its full-scale invasion.
