apparently after ukraine's 1991 independence over something like 1,700 soviet nuclear weapons were left on its territory. just imagine where ukraine would be today had they had that many. unfortunately ukraine never possessed operational control of the weapons, and all were removed to russia under a 1994 agreement in exchange for security assurances. clinton said, i feel a personal stake because i got ukraine to agree to give up their nuclear weapons. and none of them believe that russia would have pulled this stunt if ukraine still had their weapons,
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