Twenty years ago, Ukraine gave up its nuclear weapons in exchange for security guarantees from Russia and the West. Today Kyiv feels betrayed - and not merely by Moscow.
Russia's War Against Ukraine
Deutsche Welle: Ukraine’s forgotten security guarantee – the Budapest memorandum
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry (C) hosts the Budapest Memorandum Ministerial meeting with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Deshchytsia (3rd R) and British Foreign Secretary William Hague (2nd L) at the U.S. ambassador's residence in Paris, on March 5, 2014. Ukraine's interim government and France today played down the prospect of a full-blown conflict with Russia ahead of potentially crucial talks on the Crimea crisis in Paris. \"We want to keep good dialogue, good relations with the Russian people,\" Ukraine's interim Foreign Minister Andriy Deshchytsya said after meeting his French counterpart Laurent Fabius.
