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[-] istanbullu@lemmy.ml 14 points 7 months ago

they weren't ukrainian nukes. they were soviet nukes and ukraine didn't have the money or expertise to take care of them.

[-] davel@lemmy.ml 17 points 7 months ago

I wouldn’t put it that way exactly. Ukraine was a constituent part of the USSR, and eastern Ukraine was a major industrial hub. I don’t know the history of it, but perhaps giving the nukes to Russia was part of the deal made in the Post-Soviet transition in Ukraine.

[-] istanbullu@lemmy.ml 6 points 7 months ago

Russia inherited the Soviet military for the most part. It's unlikely that Ukraine could have used those nukes in the first place.

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