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Ukraine, he said, had openly prepared for a new "punitive operation in the Donbas" and an "invasion" of Russian "historical territories, including Crimea." NATO countries would have supplied Ukraine with state-of-the-art weapons, Putin added. No evidence of an imminent 'invasion' of Crimea by Ukraine It was not Ukraine that launched an invasion, but Russia: Here is a picture from a surveillance camera at a border crossing in Crimea on February 24 Image: BORDER SERVICE OF UKRAINE/AP Photo/picture allianceĬlaim: Russia is carrying out a pre-emptive "military operation" against Ukraine, according to Putin. Since the Russian annexation of Crimea in 2014 violated Ukrainian sovereignty, Zelenskyy hinted in Munich that he would withdraw from the agreement. However, there is no evidence to date that suggests Kyiv is proactively seeking to acquire nuclear weapons, as DW fact check proves. In exchange, Ukraine handed over its nuclear weapons inherited from the Soviet Union to Russia or partially destroyed them.

In it, Zelenskyy mentions the 1994 Budapest Memorandum, which ensures that the sovereignty and national borders of Ukraine, Belarus, and Kazakhstan are respected vis-à-vis the signatory states that include the US, UK and Russia. Putin is likely referring to a speech by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the Munich Security Conference last February.