From the Lisbon Protocol to the Budapest Memorandum. When, why and how the concept of Ukraine’s status as a non-nuclear weapon state was designed? Declaration of Ukraine’s status as a non-nuclear weapon state and strengthening of its independent statehood. Negotiations on the outline of Ukraine’s non-nuclear weapon state status under international law: process and outcome. The time of wasted opportunities. Budapest Memorandum: a historic mistake or inadequate actions by Ukraine’s government? Modern model to guarantee Ukraine’s security as a non-nuclear weapon state.

How to solve one of the country's most difficult problems and why the state is stubbornly unwilling to do so

Despite loud statements about ceasing military cooperation, Ukrainian plants continue to supply the Russian aggressor

Russian military aggression has recently become a constant threat, while the Western powers are failing to fulfil the security guarantees they extended to Ukraine under the 1994 Budapest Memorandum. The issue of nuclear or other similarly effective weapons with which to defend Ukraine’s borders is again high on the agenda

The anamnesis of Ukraine’s non-nuclear status

The Ukrainian Week talks to Volodymyr Ohryzko, the Minister of Foreign Affairs in 2007–2009, about what Ukraine can do if the guarantors under the Budapest Memorandum it signed in 1994 in exchange for giving up its strategic nuclear weapons arsenal, the third largest in the world, fail to meet their commitments

Ex-Defence Minister Anatoliy Hrytsenko comments on Russia's aggression, Ukraine's response to it and NATO

A new study by independent conflict researchers describes a heavy volume of traffic in the past two years from Ukraine’s Oktyabrsk port, just up the Black Sea coast from Odessa, to Syria’s main ports on the Mediterranean, Jobby Warrick writes for The Washington Post

Rob Crilly, the Pakistan correspondent of The Daily Telegraph, told The Ukrainian Week about democratic process in the country, military influence as well as Islamabad`s relations with Afghanistan and India

Professor Abbas Milani, Director of Iranian Studies at Stanford University told The Ukrainian Week about Iranian nuclear programme, the nature of Iranian anti-Americanism and the basis of regime’s sustainability

The nuclear arms race goes on, even though nuclear weapons are becoming less important