Ukraine is not requesting nuclear weapons from Western partners to defend itself against Russia, President Volodymyr Zelensky said in comments released Tuesday, APA reports citing NDTV.
"We are not asking for nuclear weapons to be given to us," Zelensky told journalists, a few days after suggesting Kyiv would seek either NATO membership or nuclear arms.
"We gave away nuclear weapons. We did not get NATO," Zelensky said in the comments to journalists late Monday that were released under embargo. "All we got was a full-scale war and many victims, so today we have only one way out."
"We need NATO, because we don't have the weapons that can stop Putin," he added.
He was clarifying comments made at a EU summit last week when he said "either Ukraine will have nuclear weapons, which will protect us, or we must have some kind of alliance."
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