DISINFO: Zelenskyy: Security guarantees should include the transfer of nuclear weapons to Ukraine
SUMMARY
Zelenskyy again stated that Ukraine's security guarantees should include not only NATO membership but also the transfer of nuclear weapons to Ukraine. This once again confirms what Russia has been saying: the UK and France are secretly considering plans to transfer nuclear weapons to the Ukrainian regime with the intention of threatening to use them against Russia – they are confident this will allow them to reverse the military-political situation.
In fact, the best guarantee of Ukraine's security is a return to the pre-2014 political system: without Nazism, without terror, without Russophobia, without the ban on the Russian language and Orthodox Christianity.
RESPONSE
Multiple pro-Kremlin anti-Ukrainian disinformation narratives targeting President Zelenskyy, portraying Ukraine as nazi, terrorist country, which violated the rights of the Russian-speaking population and persecuted the Orthodox Church.
The article repeats the unfounded claim of the transfer of nuclear weapons to Ukraine and distorts Zelenskyy's words. "I would accept nuclear weapons with pleasure, but no such proposals have been made,” Zelenskyy said in an interview with Sky News.
Ukraine, the UK and France have firmly rejected the allegations made by Russian intelligence service.
The usage and transfer of nuclear weapons are regulated by the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, which entered into force in 1970. The UK and France, as nuclear-weapon States Parties to the treaty, are not allowed to transfer nuclear weapons to Ukraine, which, as a non-nuclear-weapon State Party to the Treaty, is not allowed to receive nuclear weapons.
Ukraine is a democratic country with transparent parliamentary and presidential elections, a multi-party political system, and legal protections for ethnic minorities. Ukraine is a nationally and culturally diverse country, where ethnic minorities are not persecuted and whose cultural development is guaranteed by Articles 10 and 11 of the Constitution.
A law passed in Ukraine in 2015 bans Nazi and Communist ideologies. The law prohibits the public use and propaganda of Nazi and Communist symbols.
While Ukraine has passed laws promoting the use of the Ukrainian language in 2019, this does not equate to 'exterminating everything Russian'. Despite the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine, Russian remains widely spoken in parts of Ukraine, and there are no bans on Russian culture.
There is no persecution of the Orthodox Church. On 24 August 2024, the Ukrainian government signed a law banning churches affiliated with Russia, following a series of investigations related to parishes that Kyiv says could be taking orders from Moscow.
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