Why Ukraine is rethinking NATO relationship By Olexander Motsyk

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Ukrainian ambassador explains ...

(CNN) -- Twenty years ago this month, Ukraine, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States signed an agreement that represented a major step in global anti-proliferation efforts. Under the deal, known as the Budapest Memorandum, Ukraine voluntarily surrendered the third largest nuclear arsenal in the world, which it had inherited after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

But fast forward two decades, and an agreement once heralded as a breakthrough is gradually being undermined by one of the very countries that signed it.

http://edition.cnn.com/2014/12/12/opinion/motsyk-ukraine-security-policy/index.html

[Jefferson23]

1. Not surprising...reaction to Putin the aggressor. n/t

[Duckhunter935]

2. "gradually being undermined"

no not undermined. completely breached. Since Russia failed to live up to it's agreement of respecting the territorial integrity of Ukraine, I do not see an issue of them joining an alliance to help secure the country from even more aggression from the party that broke the signed agreement.