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When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, Ukraine inherited part of its nuclear arsenal. But under the 1994 Budapest Memorandum, Ukraine agreed to return these weapons to Russia in exchange for “assurances” from Moscow, the UK and the US that its sovereignty and borders would be respected. Russia brazenly violated this promise when it annexed Crimea in 2014 and tore up the