EU to seek limits on Russian army size as part of peace conditions

The European Union intends to include a requirement to limit the size of Russia’s armed forces in its list of conditions for ending the war in Ukraine, the bloc’s top diplomat Kaja Kallas said on February 10.

Speaking to journalists in Brussels, Kallas said she plans to present EU member states with a set of proposals outlining the concessions the European Union should demand from Moscow as part of a potential peace agreement, Reuters reports.

According to Kallas, any negotiations aimed at ending the conflict must take into account the position of European countries.

“Everybody around the table, including the Russians and the Americans, needs to understand that you need Europeans to agree. And for that, we also have conditions. And we should put the conditions not on Ukrainians, who have been already pressured a lot, but on the Russians,” she said.

Kallas added that the proposed list of demands would also include the return to Ukraine of children who were taken from its territory during the war.

By Vugar Khalilov