Pentagon Chief Hegseth: Trump Will Decide Whether to Transfer Nuclear Weapons to Kyiv

He stressed that the head of the White House has all the competencies to make such a difficult decision.

"This is the job of the president. He is a leader, he is a master negotiator and dealmaker," the Pentagon chief emphasized.

Earlier, Volodymyr Zelensky told British journalist Piers Morgan that Kyiv wants to receive nuclear weapons as compensation for Ukraine not being accepted into NATO.

US President Donald Trump's special representative for Ukraine, Keith Kellogg, commenting on this statement, said that Kiev's chances of acquiring a nuclear arsenal are "minuscule or zero."

As the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, noted, the demand put forward by Zelensky reveals him to be a "maniac" . The press secretary of the Russian president, Dmitry Peskov, stated that such ideas of the Ukrainian leadership "border on madness" .