At this point All nukes are under sole Russian control
12/30/1991, Minsk Agreement: Just nine days after Alma-Ata, CIS leaders met in Minsk and agreed that strategic forces, including nuclear weapons, would remain under a unified command temporarily, with Russia as the de facto leader. So far nothing set in stone.
Here all nukes are signed away to Russia - remember these are not freebees Russia takes all soviet debts
The Lisbon Protocol (May 23, 1992) is the key document, nothing else matters. Ukraine, Belarus, and Kazakhstan—where Soviet nuclear weapons were stationed commit to transferring these weapons to Russia and acceding to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).
Budapest memorandum was just a final do over of allready agreed upon deals , shake some more money from US and Russia
The important part is that long before that memorandum Nukes were out of Ukraines control. by 1994 it was like Germany signed away US nukes stored in Germany.
NON BINDING - basicaly atta boy hand shake and couple billions of gas debt writen off.plus some millions from US for faciliating swift destruction of nuclear arms and procesign into Fuel for US nuclear reactors.
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