While a lot of the focus in post-regime change Ukraine has been on neo-Nazi parties, today’s eye-opening comments come from the moderate Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reform (UDAR), as one of their members of parliament is calling for the nation to launch a new nuclear weapons program.

MP Pavlo Rizanenko dubbed Ukraine’s post-Soviet disarmament a “big mistake,” saying the nation thought it was getting a pledge for unconditional military aid from the United States and Britain as part of the deal.

The Budapest Memorandum had all the signatories promising to respect Ukraine’s political independence, but did not oblige any of the signatories to attack anyone else.

At its founding, Ukraine had 1,900 nuclear warheads. The last of those arms were exported in June 1996, and Ukraine is now a non-nuclear weapons signatory to the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT).

Ukraine’s interim government is arguing that Russia’s deployment of troops to the Crimea to secure a referendum on secession violates the memorandum, though Russia has a pact with Ukraine to keep up to 25,000 troops in the Crimea.

TOKYO — After a night of partying in Hiroshima City, the woman agreed to share a room at the Tokyo Inn Hotel with the U.S. Marine.

As soon as the door closed, the tryst turned violent, she told investigators. He tore her clothes off, forced her to perform oral sex on him and then raped her, she said.

The Marine claimed the sex was consensual. But he also acknowledged that she “might have perceived it as a rape,” an October 2011 investigative report said.

There would be no prison sentence, though. At a summary court-martial, a forum for adjudicating minor offenses, he was found guilty of adultery and failure to obey an order. He was fined $978 and busted to E-1, the military’s lowest rank.

The case is one of more than 1,000 reports of sex crimes involving U.S. military personnel based in Japan between 2005 and early 2013. The documents, obtained by The Associated Press through a Freedom of Information Act request, open a rare window into the opaque world of military justice and show a pattern of random and inconsistent judgments.

The AP analysis found the handling of allegations verged on the chaotic, with seemingly strong cases often reduced to lesser charges. In two rape cases, commanders overruled recommendations to court-martial and dropped the charges instead.

In one case filed in 2010, a woman alleged that a sailor raped her. Later, she confronted him in a recorded conversation. She accused him of pushing her down “for sex purposes,” after which he apologized for hurting her “in that way.”

An Article 32 hearing, the military’s version of a grand jury, recommended a court-martial on rape charges, but the commanding officer said no. The charges were dropped.

The Associated Press originally sought the records for U.S. military personnel stationed in Japan after attacks against Japanese women raised political tensions there. The documents might now give weight to members of Congress who want to strip senior officers of their authority to decide whether serious crimes, including sexual assault cases, go to trial.

U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, who leads the Senate Armed Services’ personnel subcommittee, said Sunday the records are “disturbing evidence” that there are commanders who refuse to prosecute sexual assault cases.

The AP story “shows the direct evidence of the stories we hear every day,” said Gillibrand, who leads a group of lawmakers from both political parties pressing for further changes in the military’s legal system.

Almost one in five U.S. soldiers had a common mental illness, such as depression, panic disorder or ADHD, before enlisting in the Army, according to a new study that raises questions about the military’s assessment and screening of recruits.

More than 8 percent of soldiers had thought about killing themselves and 1.1 percent had a past suicide attempt, researchers found from confidential surveys and interviews with 5,428 soldiers at Army installations across the country.

The findings, published online Monday in two papers in JAMA Psychiatry, point to a weakness in the recruiting process, experts said. Applicants are asked about their psychiatric histories, and those with certain disorders or past suicide attempts are generally barred from service.

“The question becomes, ‘How did these guys get in the Army?’ ” said Ronald Kessler, a Harvard University sociologist who led one of the studies.

A third study looked at the increased suicide rate among soldiers from 2004 to 2009. The study, which tracked almost one million soldiers, found that those who had been deployed to Afghanistan or Iraq had an increased rate of suicide.

But it also found that the suicide rate among soldiers who had never deployed also rose steadily during that time. The study did not explain the cause.

The Pentagon did not make officials available Monday to discuss the studies.