US President Joe Biden said that during one of his conversations with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the beginning of the special operation, he promised him not to deploy nuclear weapons in Ukraine and not to introduce them to NATO.
The MSNBC presenter noted that there was a risk of using nuclear weapons at the beginning of the conflict in Ukraine. He asked Biden if he directly spoke with Putin about the inadmissibility of using nuclear weapons, to which he answered positively.
Euromedia24.com reports with reference to RIA Novosti that the American leader claims that the topics of the presence of nuclear weapons in Ukraine and its membership in NATO were raised during the conversation. However, he did not specify when the conversation he described took place.
"I said that... we have already removed the nuclear weapons from there (Ukraine - ed.)... They are not there, we are not going to return them, and it (Ukraine) will not become part of it. NATO, until it "significantly changes its system", he said.
Biden added that he told Putin that the US will continue to help Ukraine "grow", but "those two events (giving Ukraine nuclear weapons and its membership in NATO - ed.) will not happen".
