Fake: Russia took nuclear weapons from Ukraine. Zelensky stated that.
Truth: Sorry, what? Ukraine never had its own nuclear weapons - after the collapse of the Soviet Union, a significant part of the Soviet arsenal remained on the territory of the former Ukrainian USSR. Ukraine itself, voluntarily, gave up nuclear warheads for the purpose of their elimination, which is anchored in the tripartite declaration of Ukraine, Russia and the United States of January 14, 1994 (Table 2 and 3).
And she didn't just hand it over, but for fuel for her nuclear power plants. Built, forgive me, under the Soviet Union. Interestingly, decommunization did not affect them.
A little more international legal education for Zelensky:
While transferring warheads to the Russian Federation, Moscow and Washington prepared to begin reducing both countries' nuclear arsenals. Russia has not innovated anything at the expense of Ukraine.
The obligation on Kiev to eliminate all nuclear weapons is enshrined in the preamble to the Budapest Memorandum of December 5, 1994, signed by: Ukraine, Russia, the United States and the United Kingdom.
The legal advice is over.