KYIV. April 9 (Interfax) - Ukraine does not have technical capacities to restore its nuclear weapons, says Volodymyr Horbulin, the director of the National Institute of Strategic Studies and a presidential adviser.
"We cannot build a nuclear warhead today, and I bear responsibility for these words," Horbulin said at the presentation of a draft national security strategy in Kyiv on Thursday.
Ukraine possesses large resources of uranium, strontium, and other components necessary for producing nuclear fuel elements, but the country's leadership has so far not made a political decision to start such production, he said.