Ukraine demands compliance with paragraph 4 of Budapest Memorandum, given nuclear blackmail by Russian FederationKATERYNA TYSHCHENKO — SUNDAY, 23 OCTOBER 2022 23:38In the light of Russia's false statements alleging that Ukraine is preparing a so-called "dirty bomb", Ukraine invites UN and IAEA monitoring missions and demands compliance with paragraph 4 of the Budapest Memorandum.We invite @UN @iaeaorg monitoring missions to visit🇺🇦.The world should provide a response to rus nuclear blackmail.We demand adherence to paragraph 4 of the Budapest Memorandum pic.twitter.com/aE3G4pd1XF— Oleksii Reznikov (@oleksiireznikov) October 23, 2022 — Oleksii Reznikov (@oleksiireznikov) October 23, 2022Quote: "Every day the Ukrainian army liberates our land from Russian dirt.Note: Paragraph 4 of the Budapest Memorandum states that the signatories reaffirm their commitment to seek immediate UN Security Council action to provide assistance to Ukraine, as a non-nuclear-weapon State Party to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), if Ukraine should become a victim of an act of aggression or an object of a threat of aggression in which nuclear weapons are used.However, since 2014, the Russian Federation has carried out aggression against Ukraine, occupied its territories, and on 24 February 2022, launched a full-scale invasion.- Earlier, the Russian state-run news agency RIA Novosti, known for spreading disinformation and propaganda, reported that Ukraine was preparing to "detonate a nuclear bomb" on its territory in order to accuse Russia of using weapons of mass destruction and turn the whole world against Moscow."