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   US Will Not Return Nuclear Weapons to Ukraine

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    The United States is not considering returning nuclear weapons to Ukraine (Reuters), which it relinquished after the collapse of the Soviet Union, White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan (WIKI)  stated on Sunday.

    Sullivan's comments came in response to a New York Times report from last month, which suggested some unnamed Western officials had proposed that U.S. President Joe Biden might provide Ukraine with nuclear arms before leaving office.

    "That is not under consideration, no," Sullivan told ABC. "What we are doing is providing various conventional capabilities to Ukraine so they can effectively defend themselves and take the fight to the Russians, not giving them nuclear capability."

    Last week, Russia labeled the idea "absolute insanity," claiming that preventing such an outcome was one of the reasons behind Moscow's invasion of Ukraine.

    After the Soviet Union's collapse in 1991, Kyiv inherited nuclear weapons but agreed to give them up under the 1994 Budapest Memorandum, in exchange for security assurances from Russia, the United States, and Britain.

This was written with the help of A.I.