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[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I wouldn’t put it that way exactly. Ukraine was a constituent part of the USSR, and eastern Ukraine was a major industrial hub. I don’t know the history of it, but perhaps giving the nukes to Russia was part of the deal made in the Post-Soviet transition in Ukraine.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Russia inherited the Soviet military for the most part. It's unlikely that Ukraine could have used those nukes in the first place.