If ‘NATO membership drags on for years’ then ‘give us nuclear weapons’ Zelensky urges

The Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that should NATO membership “drag on for years” then Ukraine should have nuclear weapons.

Zelensky said that this is a fair question to ask, will NATO “give us nuclear weapons?” as he has said that had they had weapons of mass destruction then Vladimir Putin would never have invaded.

During an interview with Piers Morgan Zelensky said, “NATO is not today, but sometime in the future. This whole process, when we go to NATO, all this time, when we wait, no matter how long it takes, and, unfortunately, does not depend on us.

“If this process drags on for years or decades, not through our fault, but through the fault of our partners, then we have an absolutely fair question: what will protect us from this evil all the time, along the way? What kind of support package, what kind of missiles, or will they give us nuclear weapons? Then let them give us nuclear weapons.”

He said he doubts Ukraine would be provided with such weapons to stop Russia, but “it would help.”

He added, “Otherwise, what kind of missiles can stop Russia‘s nuclear missiles? This is a rhetorical question. So let’s do this.

“Give us back nuclear weapons, give us missile systems, partners, help us finance an army of millions, transfer your contingent to those parts of our state where we want stability of the situation so that people can be calm.”

The Kremlin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Ukraine having nuclear weapons to defend themselves against Russia is “approaching madness.”

Peskov said, “On the whole, such statements as well as all similar statements are approaching madness. There is a nuclear non-proliferation regime and so on.”