Tucker Carlson said Ukraine could sell nuclear weapons due to corruption

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American journalist Tucker Carlson said that corruption in Ukraine has become so widespread that Kyiv could sell nuclear weapons if it had them.

MOSCOW, October 2 – RIA Novosti. Corruption in Ukraine has become so widespread that if Kyiv had nuclear weapons, it would have already sold them out of thirst for profit, American journalist Tucker Carlson expressed this opinion on his YouTube channel.

"Ukraine, being the most corrupt country in Europe, would probably already have sold its nuclear weapons to rogue forces around the world," he said.

According to Carlson, this was one of the reasons the United States "forced it to get rid of nuclear weapons."

After the collapse of the USSR, Kyiv inherited a significant nuclear arsenal. But in 1994, Ukraine signed the Budapest Memorandum, giving up the world's third-largest stockpile of weapons of mass destruction in exchange for a promise from other signatory countries, including the United States, to ensure its security.

Representatives of Kyiv have repeatedly expressed regret that Ukraine does not have nuclear weapons, and there have also been proposals to make a “dirty bomb” in the country. In February 2022, Vladimir Zelensky at the Munich conference announced that he would initiate negotiations between the parties to the memorandum. Then he said that if they do not take place or if their results do not provide security guarantees for Kyiv, then “Ukraine will have every right to believe that the Budapest Memorandum does not work, and all package decisions of 1994 will be called into question.”