Bayan rushewar Tarayyar Soviet, Ukraine ta gaji rundunar soji ta mutum 780,000 a kan yankinta, wacce ke da na uku mafi girma a duniya makaman nukiliya. A watan Mayu na shekarar 1992, Ukraine ta rattaba hannu kan Yarjejeniyar Lisbon wanda kasar ta amince ta ba da dukkan makaman nukiliya ga Rasha don zubar da ita da kuma shiga Yarjejeniyar Rashin Yarda Makaman Nukiliya a matsayin jihar da ba ta da makaman nukiliya. Ukraine ta amince da yarjejeniyar a shekarar 1994, kuma a shekarar 1996 kasar ta zama ba ta da makaman nukiliya.Ukraine ta dauki matakai na yau da kullun don rage makamai na yau da kullun. Ta rattaba hannu kan Yarjejeniyar kan Sojoji na yau da kullun a Turai, wanda ya bukaci rage tankuna, bindigogi, da motocin sulke (an rage sojojin zuwa 300,000). Kasar na shirin canza tsarin aikin soja na yanzu zuwa mai ba da agaji. Tambaya: Yaushe aka sanya hannu kan yarjejeniyar soja ta Lisbon?
Mayu na shekara ta 1992