2023-05-06 01:02:55
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton said in an interview on the 4th that when he met Putin in 2011, he said he was not bound by the “Budapest Security Memorandum” that guaranteed the country’s territorial integrity. Sending troops to Ukraine is “sooner or later”.
In 1994, Clinton and then Russian President Boris Yeltsin signed the “Budapest Security Memorandum”, under which Russia respected Ukraine’s territorial sovereignty and Ukraine removed its Soviet-era nuclear weapons.
Clinton and his wife Hillary Clinton were interviewed in New York on the 4th by David Rubenstein, chairman of the Carlyle Group (Carlyle Group). Russian President Vladimir Putin talked, “Putin told me, three years before he took Crimea, that he did not agree with the agreement I made with Yeltsin that if Ukraine gave up its nuclear weapons, they would respect Ukrainian territory” .
“Putin told me he didn’t agree with that deal, he didn’t support it, and he wouldn’t be bound,” Clinton said. “I knew from that day on that one day he would (invade Ukraine), it’s only a matter of time.”
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