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Ukraine slams ‘failed’ 1994 security guarantee, urges NATO membership

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy [Alina Smutko/Reuters]

Ukraine has slammed a 30-year-old security agreement as it reiterated its call for NATO membership.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Kyiv on Tuesday slammed 1994’s Budapest Memorandum, which saw the newly independent country give up the world’s third-largest nuclear arsenal for security guarantees from Russia and the West.

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