{"id":1325256,"date":"2025-11-25T17:20:50","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T15:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/ukraine-agreed-to-limit-the-size-of-the-army-what-is-the-maximum-permitted-number-of-soldiers\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T17:20:50","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T15:20:50","slug":"ukraine-agreed-to-limit-the-size-of-the-army-what-is-the-maximum-permitted-number-of-soldiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/ukraine-agreed-to-limit-the-size-of-the-army-what-is-the-maximum-permitted-number-of-soldiers\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine agreed to limit the size of the army: what is the maximum permitted number of soldiers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In the updated version of the American peace plan, Ukraine agreed to reduce the size of the Armed Forces to 800,000 people.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/b0d9a52c-60f8-47a3-9ea9-2afcb118c702\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">was reported<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">by the Financial Times, citing high-ranking Ukrainian officials.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Previously, there was talk of limiting the army to 600,000 soldiers. However, this point worried European leaders. The plan they prepared proposed reducing the army by 800,000 in peacetime.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kyiv reportedly agreed to the move as part of efforts to resolve the war. However, it is not yet known whether the restrictions apply to the martial law period.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In addition, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and American leader Donald Trump are expected to agree on other \u201cmost sensitive issues.\u201d Presumably, these are territories and security guarantees.<\/span><\/p>\n<p> As a reminder, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/ukraina-maie-vyyty-z-donbasu-a-svit-vyznaty-krym-rosiyskym-z-iavylysia-novi-detali-myrnoho-planu-trampa\/\">the Trump administration&#8217;s ceasefire plan provides for the complete withdrawal of Ukrainian troops from the territories of Donetsk and Luhansk regions<\/a> , as well as the freezing of the contact line in the Kherson and Zaporizhia regions.<\/p>\n<p> Earlier, US President Donald <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/vidmova-vid-vstupu-v-nato-ta-orendna-plata-za-donbas-tramp-skhvalyv-myrnyy-plan-dlia-vrehuliuvannia-viyny\/\">Trump approved a plan for a peace agreement between Ukraine and Russia<\/a> , which consists of 28 points.<\/p>\n<p> It should be noted that <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/u-zhenevi-ssha-ta-ukraina-domovylysia-zminyty-myrnyy-plan\/\">after the negotiations between the Ukrainian and American delegations in Geneva, the US peace plan for Ukraine underwent significant changes.<\/a><\/p>\n<p> As is known, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/ukraina-dala-zghodu-na-myrnyy-plan-ssha-rf-poky-ne-vidreahuvala\/\">Ukraine has given preliminary consent to the American peace proposal<\/a> to end the war, but the process is being slowed down by the complete lack of reaction from Russia.<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Twitter<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the updated version of the American peace plan, Ukraine agreed to reduce the size of the Armed Forces to 800,000 people. This was reported by the Financial Times, citing high-ranking Ukrainian officials. Previously, there was talk of limiting the army to 600,000 soldiers. However, this point worried European leaders. The plan they prepared proposed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":326641,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76875,76885],"class_list":["post-1325256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-other-news","category-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1325256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1325256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1325256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1325256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1325256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}