Ukraine’s Lost Deterrent

Podcast: Face-Off · Airwave Media

Opublikowano: 2026-11-03

It is one of the great broken promises of the post-Cold War era. When the Soviet Union collapsed, Ukraine found itself in possession of the world’s third-largest nuclear arsenal. In 1994, Ukraine gave up those weapons in exchange for assurances that its sovereignty would be protected. Jane Perlez was there reporting on the nuclear dismantling in Kyiv that winter of 1994. Decades later, Vladimir Putin has threatened to unleash nuclear weapons on Ukraine. In this episode, Jane Perlez interviews former Ukrainian foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba. Kuleba explains that Russia could have invaded Ukraine in 2022 whether or not Ukraine had...