The White House made a statement about providing nuclear weapons to Ukraine

The administration of President Joe Biden is not considering returning nuclear weapons to Ukraine, but will do everything in its power to strengthen Ukraine's position on the battlefield and at the negotiating table. White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said this in a commentary for the ABC television channel .

We are going to do everything we can in these 50 days to give Ukraine every tool possible to strengthen its position on the battlefield, to make the Ukrainians stronger at the negotiating table," Sullivan said.

He added that "massive shipments of military equipment" to Ukraine will continue in order to "spend every dollar that Congress has appropriated to help Ukraine."

Earlier, the Pentagon said that the US plans to deliver $7.1bn worth of aid to Ukraine by the end of the administration of current US President Joe Biden.

At the same time, Sullivan emphasised that the Biden administration would not discuss returning nuclear weapons to Ukraine.

It is not under consideration. No," he added.

Ukraine inherited the world's third largest nuclear arsenal from the USSR. In particular, as of 1991, the country had about 170 intercontinental ballistic missiles and Tu-95MS and Tu-160 strategic bombers. In 1996, Ukraine finally renounced nuclear status,