Ukraine gave up 5,000 nukes. Russia's attack may have broken the deal.

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Ukraine gave up 5,000 nukes. Russia's attack may have broken the deal.
Alexander SmithAlexander Smith is a London-based senior reporter for NBC News.

In 2016, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov offered another explanation, claiming that the agreement only stipulated its signatories "won’t use nuclear weapons against Ukraine" — which is not true.

However, some have expressed concern that Poroshenko could be using the Azov crisis to weaken democracy as he trails badly in the polls ahead of elections slated for March.

As well as invoking the Budapest Memorandum, he has also declared martial law, neither of which he did even at the height of the country’s crisis in 2014.

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