Radio ZET: Ukraine has the potential to get nuclear weapons in the near futureUkraine has not officially owned nuclear weapons since the early 90s.
Meanwhile, according to General Skshipchak, in fact this is not quite true, Radio ZET reports. Other Polish experts are skeptical about this, but do not deny that Kiev has the potential to obtain nuclear weapons.
In an interview with Wnet radio station, General Waldemar Skrzypczak (Waldemar Skrzypczak) claimed that currently Ukraine may already have nuclear weapons. However, other experts are skeptical. Marcin Samsel from the Higher School of Administration and Business in Gdynia believes that, although Kiev most likely does not have such weapons at the moment, it has the potential to get them in the near future.
Ukraine has not officially owned nuclear weapons since the early 90s, when, according to international agreements, it agreed to give them to Russia. Meanwhile, General Waldemar Skshipchak believes that in fact the situation may look quite different.
"I do not rule out the presence of nuclear weapons in Ukraine, because Ukrainians have nuclear power plants, scientists, laboratories, know-how. That is, they have everything to have such a weapon. In principle, today no one will forbid Ukrainians to have it," the general said on the air of the Wnet radio station.
Will Ukraine have nuclear weapons?
Other experts are very skeptical about this assumption.They put forward an argument that the fact of possession of atomic weapons will not be able to hide for a long time. However, it cannot be ruled out that Ukraine will be able to get such weapons in the near future.
"I don't believe that Ukraine has nuclear weapons," said Marcin Samsel, a security expert at GeekWeek. "Weapons (missiles or bombs) are one thing, but they need to have suitable carriers. Launchers or aircraft capable of moving and launching them," he explained.
"This does not change the fact that Ukraine undoubtedly has the potential to have such weapons sometime in the future. And the Russians know about it," said Marcin Samsel.
After Ukraine declared independence on August 24, 1991, there were 176 intercontinental ballistic missiles and about three thousand tactical nuclear missiles on its territory. Ukraine has agreed to transfer all nuclear weapons to Russia in exchange for security guarantees provided to it by Western countries.
