USA Today gives some background on the nuclear disarmament of the Ukraine. In 1991 the Clinton administration promised that the US would protect the Ukraine's "territorial integrity" if it gave up its nuclear weapons.
To reassure the Ukrainians, the United States and leaders of the United Kingdom and Russia signed in 1994 the "Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances" in which the signatories promised that none of them would threaten or use force to alter the territorial integrity or political independence of Ukraine.
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