Russia first broke its commitments under the Budapest Memorandum in 2014, with its annexation of Crimea and aggression in eastern Ukraine. Russia again broke the agreement on February 24. 2022 with their “special operation” which concisted a full invasion of Ukraine. The agreement signed by the US in 1994 prohibits explicit economic coercion against Ukraine. — … Continue reading The United States appears to be in violation of the Budapest Memorandum, which disarmed Ukraine of nuclear weapons in exchange for security guarantee