Why Did Ukraine Give Up Its Nukes? (Short Animated Documentary)

We all make mistakes in the heat of passion, Jimbo.

They are russias not Ukraine

Ukraine should have said #### that I'm keeping my nukes.

If we could turn back time to the good old days

This is not accurate at all lmao

Hoi4 reference

This aged like rotten milk

"It would guarantee that you'd never be invaded" oh poor Ukranians

Ainda Bem que a Rússia Tirou as Armas Atômicas da Ucrânia de Não a Rússia estaria Fodida

As a hoi4 consumer i enjoy the hoi4 reference

Ukraine never had NUKES, URSS had them! Stop lying like that!
URSSR didn't "left on their soil" as US did in Afghanistan, they were still administrated by URSS, or Russia.

This has not aged well

If only you had made this a year later

Wow this moment aged really badly

Bet they wish they had them now. Too bad. Why disarming people never helps the disarmed people.

Russia did not TAKE Ukraine nukes, Ukraine unilaterally nuclear disarmed in exchange for solemn vow never to be "special operation -ed" .. Ukraine gambled that widespread friendship is a safer and more practical form of defence than nukes .. If we betray Ukraine today we close humanities door on nuclear disarmament forever.

In an alternate timeline, Russia never invaded Ukraine because Ukraine insisted on keeping their nukes.

Ukrainians hearing "the Ukraine":

I love the hoi4 reference on 2.15

What people don’t understand is that nukes are expensive as hell to maintain and I’m sure a newly formed country would be thrilled to have that cost

well that certainly backfired big time

well this aged like milk

Stalin might be dead, but his motto lives on:
"This treaty isn't worth the paper it was written on"

Put it simple NEVER trust russia.

The us is the one that violated the treaty by threating the national security of russia to let it join NATO Support russia 🇷🇺❤️🇪🇬 our brics friend

If you have a friend or someone you know who's a Russian sympathiser:

Just mention the Budapest memorandum

They received guarantees from Russia, but also obligations, namely that no one from outside interferes in the politics of Ukraine. In 2014, the Western security services directly overthrew the constitutional and legal order of Ukraine on the "Maidan" and since then we have what we have. Simply, if Ukraine had elections, and if the legal government made political decisions behind which the whole nation stands and some kind of system of free elections and unified politics, then we could talk about Russia's direct interference in Ukraine's sovereign decisions. In this way, the Russian entry into Crimea and other areas are equally illegal, as is the organization of the coup by the Western security services and the direct control of whoever takes power illegally in 2014 (remember dear Mrs. Viktorija Nuland), the Russians even have the option to calmly say to the West "you are first started, you were the first to trample on the Budapest agreement". The biggest enigma in the whole story is why the West didn't wait for the elections in May 2014, win them, steal them, whatever, and drag Ukraine to the west? How did the Orange Revolution fail? Most likely because the Ukrainian people, who are supposedly supported by the West, were not particularly in the mood to go in that direction at the time. But it is certainly easier not to deal with these issues, to make stupid platitudes about the then (2014) "democratic overthrow of the Russian dictator without elections" who had a long dictatorial tenure of as much as three years and about the "united desire of Ukrainians to go west" that is thwarted by a madman VVP who dreams of restoring the USSR.

And everybody lived happily ever after

After Nqto membership Ukraine should begin a nuke program aimed at Russia. Keeping the Russians out of Ukraine permanently

This video has not aged to well

love the eyes on these lmfao

It was the worst deal in the history of deals.

Because they could not sell them to the Africa’s warlords, like the rest of the Soviet hardware? 😂😂😂

This has simultaneously not aged well and aged extremely well.

With regards to the ending of the video: "Fun Fact, No".

Xibei San Ma's opinion was a vital factor here

Good to know Russia keeps its promises😒

Short answer: surprisingly enough, nukes are expensive.

Remember Ukraine when your Political Leader says to you "Give up your Guns American Citizens".

To be fair this is why North Korea won't give up its Nukes. Many country's get security guarantees & when they get attacked or Invaded all the "Anti-War" people come out & say "Let's not get involved" & just sit back & let a country lose its Sovereignty.

Thanks for the reminder that treaties are literally just words on paper

What a good day that was... for Putin.

F***!

What a nice ending, I’m glad that the treaty will help protect Ukraine

This totally aged wonderfully. Ukraine still has the same borders and hasn’t been invaded again to this day😃😃😃

Russia: after all, why shouldn’t we have Ukraine