The latter promised to "push #Kuchma against the wall" - "either an agreement on the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons , or #Ukraine will receive neither gas nor oil."

It also follows from declassified documents that the last president of the #USSR, #Mikhail_Gorbachev, was outraged by the promise of #US President #George_Bush to recognize the independence of #Ukraine He hinted that then 12 million #Russians would become citizens of a "foreign state,"