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Bill Clinton regrets getting Ukraine to give up their nuclear weapons: “I feel terrible”

He also said “he knew that President Putin did not support the agreement President Yeltsin made never to interfere with Ukraine’s territorial boundaries"

Newsroom April 6 11:00

Former President Bill Clinton admitted in an interview Tuesday that he bears responsibility for Ukraine giving up nuclear warheads as a result of a decades-old agreement between Kyiv, the U.S., and Russia.

The former Democratic president told RTE Prime Time that had it not been for a 1994 agreement initiated by his administration to get nuclear weapons out of Ukraine, Russia likely would not have invaded the country last February.

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“I feel a personal stake because I got them [Ukraine] to agree to give up their nuclear weapons. And none of them believe that Russia would have pulled this stunt if Ukraine still had their weapons,” Clinton said.

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