Zelenskyy recalled that his country agreed to give up the Soviet nuclear weapons stored on its soil in exchange for security assurances.Nicolas Tucat/AFP via Getty Images

Zelenskyy: We need NATO or nukes … and we want NATO – POLITICO

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BRUSSELS — Ukraine’s survival can only be ensured by joining NATO or giving Kyiv nuclear weapons, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.

Zelenskyy recalled that his country agreed to give up the Soviet nuclear weapons stored on its soil in exchange for security assurances from Russia, the United States and the United Kingdom under the 1994 Budapest Memorandum.

“Which of these major nuclear powers suffered? All of them? No. Ukraine [did],” Zelenskyy said at the European Council summit in Brussels on Thursday.