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Retired British Colonel Richard Kemp made a provocative statement during the Black Sea Security Forum in Odesa, arguing that the United Kingdom should help Ukraine restore its nuclear arsenal as part of their recently signed long-term partnership agreement, according to Espreso.tv.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYou can\u2019t deter a nuclear-armed country without nuclear capability, and you can\u2019t deter tactical nuclear weapons without strategic nuclear weapons. It\u2019s meaningless,\u201d Kemp stated. \u201cSo I believe part of that declaration should have been a UK commitment to develop nuclear weapons [for Ukraine].\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kemp criticized the West\u2019s failure to deliver on past promises, referring to the Budapest Memorandum signed by the UK in 1994, in which London pledged security guarantees to Ukraine in exchange for its denuclearization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHelp in developing Ukraine\u2019s own nuclear capability must be provided,\u201d Kemp added. \u201cUkraine gave it up in return for supposed Western guarantees that were never realized. So I don\u2019t think we should simply ignore the nuclear issue, which seems today to be swept under the carpet \u2014 and I think that is a mistake.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While Kemp\u2019s remarks are not official UK policy, they reflect growing frustration among some Western security experts over Russia\u2019s unchecked aggression and the limitations of conventional deterrence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The technical feasibility of Ukraine restoring nuclear weapons has been widely debated. Experts say it would require years of enrichment or reactor-based plutonium production, along with the development of advanced delivery systems \u2014 all under intense international scrutiny.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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