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Pro-russian media are manipulating excerpts from Volodymyr Zelenskyi's speech in Brussels on October 17, where he recalled the Budapest Memorandum and Ukraine's voluntary renunciation of its nuclear arsenal. russian propaganda presents the news in such a way that Ukraine has allegedly started blackmailing Western countries to create their own nuclear weapons if they do not fulfill all of Zelenskyi's requests for weapons and finances.

True: President Zelenskyi emphasized in his speech that Ukraine is not working on creating nuclear weapons:"We have never said that we are preparing to create nuclear weapons. I said that when the Budapest Memorandum was signed, Ukraine gave up its own nuclear weapons and had to receive security guarantees from highly respected countries. We gave up our nuclear weapons. But the security guarantees did not work. Moreover, one of the guarantors attacked our country. Therefore, if Ukraine remains without nuclear weapons, we have no alternative but NATO."
Ukraine has never resorted to threats with weapons of mass destruction, which cannot be said about russia. High-ranking representatives of the kremlin constantly in their rhetoric remind about the possible use of nuclear weapons, and also, contrary to all international agreements, move nuclear weapons to Belarus, as well as cooperate in this field with Iran and North Korea.
In continuation of the topic, a photo of the cover of the Scottish newspaper The National with the headline "Zelenskyi is provoking a nuclear crisis" is being distributed by pro-russian sources.
"Why is Zelenskyi's victory plan a threat to the nuclear security of the whole world?" - asks the journalist of the publication in a publication forged by the russians. In fact, The National did not publish such material, and the front page of the newspaper was redacted. In its official X (Twitter) account, the media published what the October 18 issue of The National looked like: the first column did not contain any news about Volodymyr Zelenskyi and Ukraine in general.
Obviously, this is not the last attempt by the russians to demonize the president of Ukraine for mentioning nuclear weapons, which she gave up a long time ago.
According to the materials of Spravdi.ua and Stopfake.org