Comments by "Dale Crocker" (@dalecrocker3213) on "Putin's war is going badly- north korea withdraws troops from the front line..." video.

They were Soviet weapons, not Ukrainian weapons.
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@ The distribution of materials owned by the Soviet Union following its collapse was the subject of lengthy negotiation. The simple fact of them existing on Ukrainian soil did not make them Ukrainian. They were divided according to agreement, with some going to Russia and others remaining in Ukraine, including some ships and military vehicles. The nuclear weapons were consigned to Russia. They were Soviet. They became Russian. They were never Ukrainian. If Ukraine had wanted to keep them they would have said so. The fact that Moscow still held the launch codes was a contributing factor in this decision.
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They were Russian. They could only be fired from Moscow.
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@ Ukraine did not possess them. They were simply stationed on Ukrainian soil. Moscow held the launch codes and Ukraine agreed as part of negotiations following the collapse of the SU for them to be removed to Russia. They got to keep other items of military hardware.
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@markpowell4615 You are quite wrong. The nukes were Soviet nukes stationed in the SSR of Ukraine, which was not a country, other than for the purposes of the USSR having an extra seat in the UN. Russia, in the form of the Russian Federation, became a country on December 25,1991. Ukraine had declared independence in August of that year and could be regarded as a country from that point on, although the present country is somewhat different, its constitution only having been ratified in1996. The nukes were controlled from and put in position by Moscow - or Muscovy if you like - acting as the premier republic of the USSR. Negotiations over the ownership of materials unquestionably once belonging to the USSR were subject to negotiation, and the nukes were given to the Russian Federation, making them Russian.
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@ I really don't think that a country which is a world leader in the construction and maintenance of nuclear power stations is likely to be unable to maintain nuclear weapons.
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Putin seems to me to be totally on top of the situation. He is within a hairsbreadth of achieving his military objectives and Ukraine is in no position to argue much longer. Negotiation has always been possible - but not so long as Zelensky persists in his folly and the West continues to finance it. Peace is within sight. The tragedy is that the terms will, in the end, probably not be much different to those put forward in the Minsk accords ten years ago - and hundreds of thousands will have died to no purpose other than to further a callous and cynical attempt by greedy American and European billionaires to lay their hands on something which is not theirs.
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