Ukraine gave up its nuclear weapons in July 1992. In July 1992, Ukraine, which had just become independent less than a year ago, suddenly announced that it would destroy all nuclear weapons in the country. Ukraine's first president Kravchuk even publicly stated that although it has nuclear weapons, Ukraine is like a monkey with grenades. .

Ukraine is located in eastern Europe, on the northern coast of the Black Sea and the Sea of ??Azov, bordering Belarus to the north, Russia to the northeast, Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary to the west, and Romania and Moldova to the south.

The reason why Ukraine gave up nuclear weapons

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, only a large number of nuclear weapons were deployed and stored in Ukraine. In fact, they are not essentially Ukrainian. This is easier to understand. In other words, the Soviet Union is gone, but some Soviet properties are placed in Ukraine, and they are not nuclear weapons developed by Ukraine itself. In other words, these things do not have a certain inheritance relationship in international law in Ukraine.

The storage and maintenance of nuclear weapons also cost money. Ukraine does not have enough ability and energy to manage these nuclear weapons. This is a very real problem. Ukraine was the third largest nuclear weapons state in the world at that time, because the Soviet Union kept a large number of nuclear weapons locally. The storage and maintenance of nuclear weapons could not be done in warehouses. It cost money, and it cost a lot of money. Special care must be taken to prevent Something unexpected happened.