"It was necessary to exchange (nuclear arms) for real security guarantees, and at the time, that was only NATO. And to be honest, today, it is only NATO," President Zelensky said in an interview with the Italian newspaper Il Foglio.

President Volodymyr Zelensky on Jan. 25 criticized Ukraine’s decision to give up its nuclear weapons in the 1990s without receiving strong security guarantees in return.

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