[..]Partly as a way to gain international recognition, the Ukrainian government made commitments early on that Ukraine would be a non-nuclear weapon state. The Declaration of State Sovereignty of Ukraine on 16 July 1990 committed Ukraine "not to accept, produce, or acquire nuclear weapons," although this was opposed by some Ukrainian politicians who saw Russia as a threat.[12] When Ukraine became an independent state in December 1991, President Kravchuk signed agreements in Minsk and Almaty giving operational control over the nuclear forces on its territory to the new Commonwealth of Independent States based in Moscow.[4][13][14][importance?][non-primary source needed] Until Ukraine transferred the Soviet nuclear weapons stationed on its soil, it held the world's third-largest nuclear weapons stockpile.[15][16] Belarus only had mobile missile launchers, and Kazakhstan had chosen to quickly give up its nuclear warheads and missiles to Russia. Ukraine went through a period of internal debate on their approach.[..]
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