Speaking of the land of Ukraine, it can really be called a treasure land "favored" by God, the country has cultivated more than 600,000 square kilometers of arable land area of 420,000 square kilometers, and it is also an endless, flat and fertile black land; the proportion of cultivated land to land is the world's first!
Although Ukraine has a vast black earth plain, but its geographical location is in the middle of Western Europe and Eastern Europe, so the encounter of modern Ukraine, like a "beautiful girl", has long been dominated by powerful foreign forces, you fight for me, long-term war and chaos have made the rich black earth countries become poor and backward! Until 2021, Ukraine's per capita GDP is only more than 4,500 US dollars, less than 30,000 yuan!
Although Ukraine is very poor today, but after joining the Soviet Union in the last century, it was also rich, and the Soviet Union at that time put a large number of military industries on Ukraine, and Ukraine at that time had 30% of the Soviet Union's military industry, more than 1,700 nuclear bombs, and more than 3,000 military industries.
But in the 1990s, the Soviet Union itself was unable to protect itself, and had to disintegrate and go its separate ways. As an important member of the former Soviet Union, Ukraine inherited a large number of assets from the collapse of the Soviet Union, the largest of which was a large number of nuclear weapons, and Ukraine, which possessed a large number of nuclear weapons, became the world's second largest nuclear power after the United States and Russia.
At this time, Ukraine had powerful nuclear weapons and was the world's third nuclear power, so it was reasonable to say that these weapons should be carefully maintained, so why did it destroy these nuclear bombs later?
The first reason was that Ukraine at that time did not have the money to "raise" weapons of such a large scale, forced by economic and international pressure!
Everyone knows that when the Soviet Union collapsed, a large part of the reason was the economic "collapse", but it is conceivable that Ukraine, as an important member of the Soviet Union, can its economic situation be good at this time? What Ukraine needed most when the Soviet Union first collapsed was to develop its economy and let its people live a prosperous life, not to live with these "iron knots"!
Ukraine, which has this idea, is seen through by the international community led by the United States, and throws an olive branch in the trend, saying that it can provide financial support for Ukraine's economic construction, but it is necessary to destroy the nuclear bomb as a condition, and after destruction will ensure Ukraine's "security", Ukraine, which is in urgent need of money, is very happy to agree!
Second, in addition to ukraine's urgent need for money at that time, there was another reason why it had to give up possessing a nuclear bomb, that is, the use of nuclear weapons "code" it did not know!
When the Soviet Union collapsed, although a large number of nuclear weapons were divided into Ukraine, the activation code for using these nuclear weapons was in Russia. So for Ukraine, these nuclear weapons are like: "I have a bank card that is rich and invincible, but the password of this card is not known to you, and you can't take money to spend!" ”
For Ukraine, such nuclear wealth not only can not keep the country's economic development, maintenance will also cost a lot of money, more importantly, such a huge number of nuclear weapons in their own country, the use of "passwords" but in the hands of others, that is not equivalent to making themselves sleepy and sleep badly, can not eat, all day have to worry about fear?
So Ukraine finally decided to destroy "this bank card, bank and money that it didn't have its own password", and everyone stopped using it.
There is also the fact that Ukraine has left the Union of the Soviet Union, and many things in Ukraine cannot be manufactured alone, even if it has money, it cannot produce itself, because it does not have a complete industrial system, and the Soviet Union has taken the industrial intensive system, and each member country or region is only responsible for a part of the production of weapons, and finally assembled in a unified manner.