{"id":1666736,"date":"2026-02-27T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1666736"},"modified":"2026-02-27T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T12:00:00","slug":"the-brits-french-want-ukraine-to-go-nuclear-out-of-desperation-to-hold-onto-donbass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/the-brits-french-want-ukraine-to-go-nuclear-out-of-desperation-to-hold-onto-donbass\/1666736\/","title":{"rendered":"The Brits & French Want Ukraine To Go Nuclear Out Of Desperation To Hold Onto Donbass"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Brits & French Want Ukraine To Go Nuclear Out Of Desperation To Hold Onto Donbass<\/span><\/p>\n

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Authored by Andrew Korybko,<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Russia\u2019s control over it, whether through Ukraine\u2019s withdrawal or forcible expulsion, is considered to be the basis of the US\u2019 peace plan that the Brits and French are dangerously trying to subvert.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Russia\u2019s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR)\u00a0reported<\/a>\u00a0on the\u00a0four-year anniversary<\/a>\u00a0of the\u00a0special<\/a>\u00a0operation<\/a>\u00a0that the Brits and French are plotting to help Ukraine go nuclear. The alleged plan is to provide it with relevant European components and equipment that would then be misrepresented to the world as proof of a domestically developed nuclear program. They\u2019ll also give it at least one actual warhead and\/or materials for a dirty bomb.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The purpose is to give Ukraine an edge over Russia\u00a0in the negotiations<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Zelensky\u00a0recently claimed<\/a>\u00a0that \u201cBoth the Americans and the Russians say that if you want the war to end tomorrow, get out of Donbas\u201d, <\/strong>which he flat-out refuses to do, emboldened as he\u2019s been by European support led first and foremost by the Brits and French.<\/p>\n

The first are considered to be the masterminds behind various anti-Russian provocations, including false flag plots that Moscow warned about but which never materialized, while the second has been leading the charge to send NATO troops to Ukraine.<\/p>\n

Russia has been tight-lipped about what\u00a0compromises<\/a>\u00a0it might consider<\/strong> in exchange for Ukraine at the very least withdrawing from Donbass due to the confidential nature of the negotiations, but it\u2019s possible that its compliance with this demand could lead to a\u00a0ceasefire<\/a>. Zelensky and his top two European backers don\u2019t want that even though the EU\u2019s top diplomat Kaja Kallas\u00a0claimed<\/a>, regardless of whether one agrees with her, that \u201cMoscow has failed to achieve any of its strategic objectives\u201d so far.<\/p>\n

Therefore, the Brits and French want Ukraine to go nuclear out of desperation to hold onto Donbass at minimum, the Kiev-controlled remainder of which consists of the country\u2019s top military fortifications. They expect that Russia would then agree to a ceasefire along the frontlines if Ukraine obtains nuclear capabilities, even if only a dirty bomb, and threatens to use them if it doesn\u2019t comply. At most, this could also hypothetically be leveraged to get it to withdraw from all the territory that Kiev claims as its own.<\/p>\n

The reality is that Russia won\u2019t accept a nuclear-armed Ukraine. <\/strong>Putin alluded to\u00a0Zelensky\u2019s speech at the 2022 Munich Security Conference<\/a>\u00a0in which he threatened to revoke Ukraine\u2019s participation in the 1994 Budapest Memorandum under which it transferred Soviet nukes (that were always under Moscow\u2019s control and never Kiev\u2019s) to Russia\u00a0in his address to the nation<\/a>\u00a0announcing the special operation. Most Russian-friendly observers accordingly expect Russia to not let this happen under any circumstances.<\/p>\n

Head of the Duma\u2019s Defense Committee Andrey Kartapolov\u00a0debunked<\/a>\u00a0the scenario of Ukraine developing its own nuclear program in fall 2024 after Zelensky sensationally suggested going down this route if it\u2019s kept out of NATO before walking his words back later that same day. With that in mind, Russia certainly knows that the only way for Ukraine to obtain nukes is from the Brits and\/or French, and any attempt to do so would amount to them going behind Trump\u2019s back to\u00a0subvert his peace plan<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The gist is that Trump reportedly wants Putin to freeze the conflict if Ukraine withdraws from Donbass or is forcibly expelled from there, with the incentive to do so being a\u00a0resource-centric strategic partnership<\/a>\u00a0between Russia and the US. <\/strong>Regardless of whether or not Putin would agree to this, the point is that the Brits and French\u2019s efforts to help Ukraine go nuclear out of desperation to hold onto Donbass undermine the basis of Trump\u2019s peace plan, so he should thus do everything to stop them if he truly wants peace.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nFri, 02\/27\/2026 – 02:00<\/span><\/p>\n

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