[Journal] Harvard Ukrainian Studies. Vol. XX. Special Issue

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32 Very soon thereafter, in the midst of the Ukrainian-Russian debate over the fate of Ukraine's nuclear arsenal, Moskovskie novosti printed the sensational news that Russian government officials had discussed the possibility of a nuclear conflict between Russia and Ukraine. Another Moscow newspaper presented a somewhat different version—namely, that Russian leaders had considered a preventive nuclear strike against Ukraine. " In Ukraine, the Russian president's explanation had the effect of adding more fuel to the fire.

All of these disputes may be said to be quite "normal"—that is, they are easily identifiable and perfectly soluble. Indeed, probably the most difficult and certainly the most emotionally laden issue—the disposition of the Black Sea Fleet—while perhaps not definitively resolved, has been postponed for twenty years by the Ukrainian-Russian agreements concluded on 28 May 20 SOLCHANYK 1997,3 which, in turn, paved the way for the signing of the basic bilateral treaty several days later. This is quite an accomplishment, particularly if one recalls that the tension between Kyiv and Moscow over the Black Sea Fleet in early 1992 was such that observers wondered whether the newly formed CIS would promptly fall apart before it managed to get off the ground.

In Ukraine, the Russian president's explanation had the effect of adding more fuel to the fire. The referendum results appear to have shocked many in Russia. Sobchak, like Gorbachev, tried to argue that the vote for Ukrainian independence should not be construed as a vote against some kind of Union and that, in any case, if Ukraine were to secede Russia would immediately raise territorial claims, referring specifically to the "forced Ukrainianization" of the Russian minority. The St. Petersburg Mayor likened the situation to the conflict between Serbs and Croats in Yugoslavia, with the exception that a nuclear conflict could not be excluded in the Ukrainian-Russian case.

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