The issue is much broader: expert explains what Russia is really trying to achieve in the peace plan

Political analyst Ruslan Bortnik explained that the alleged limit on the size of the Ukrainian Armed Forces (AFU) in the U.S. peace plan is fake. In reality, Russia wants to control all of Ukraine’s military capabilities, Politeka reports.

He discussed this in his blog.

According to the expert, the U.S. included in the peace plan a limitation of the AFU to 600,000 troops, while Ukraine demands 800,000. However, based on U.S. analysts’ own assessments, 200,000 would be more than enough for us. In general, he argues, these figures were relevant back in 2022 in Istanbul, because today Ukraine has at most 130,000–150,000 troops in the active combat zone.

“The size of future armies will sharply decrease due to the automation of warfare—because of the huge number of land, air, and naval drones. The main military specialty will be drone operator, the way infantryman is today, so to speak. In that case, 80% will be drone operators, so to speak. Even with an army of 50,000 people, if you have 50 million drones, you are a global threat, a strategic threat to anyone. And with an army of 500,000 people, if you have 50,000 drones, you are no threat to anyone. So this is a conversation about outdated things,” Ruslan Bortnik explains.

Nevertheless, the expert notes, this discussion is being raised now for a reason—and both the Russian and Ukrainian positions are surfacing for a reason. According to him, this is an attempt to create a mechanism by which Russia could control Ukraine’s military capabilities—not the AFU headcount, but everything altogether.

“This is Russia’s attempt to create a legal and political mechanism under which Moscow will say: ‘Here you are overstepping the limits, here you are violating the agreement.’ The numbers don’t matter. The issue is much broader,” Ruslan Bortnik asserts.

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