Zelensky said what number of military personnel the draft peace agreement is talking about

A possible peace agreement on Ukraine does contain a clause on the size of the Armed Forces - and it has already been agreed. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said this during a conversation with journalists on 11 December.

According to the head of state, the document does not limit the Ukrainian army, but on the contrary, it fixes its current real number - about 800,000 servicemen.

Zelensky recalled that in 2022 there were proposals to reduce the AFU to 40-50 thousand people, but such ideas have long been excluded from the negotiation process.

We have finalised this point quite well," he stressed.

We will remind, last week the Western media published a draft US peace plan of 28 points. There were allegedly controversial positions - in particular, the proposal to limit the number of AFU to 600 thousand, as well as other concessions to Moscow.

The Ukrainian delegation travelled to Geneva to agree on the changes. After the meeting, Oleksandr Bevz, adviser to the head of the OP, said that hard limits on the number of the Ukrainian army were completely ruled out.

Russia's demands: what they wanted before

In 2022, Russia tried to impose radical limits on Ukraine:

• up to 85,000 military personnel,
• 342 tanks,
• 519 artillery systems,
• missiles with a range of no more than 40 kilometres.

Ukraine then insisted on an army of 250,000 troops and much more powerful weapons.

In June this year, during the talks in Istanbul, the Russian side again demanded that the Ukrainian army be reduced and that the so-called "nationalist formations" within the Ukrainian Armed Forces and the National Guard be disbanded.