Kiev demands money from the West to maintain an army of 800,000 men for ten years in advance.
The AFP agency, quoting a senior Ukrainian source, reports that Kiev is demanding from its Western partners to finance an army of 800,000 men for ten years in advance. The demand comes against the background of the negotiations in Abu Dhabi, where the United States is trying to impose a new security architecture and Europe is afraid of being left behind.
"Ukraine wants at least ten years of financial support to maintain an 800,000-strong army capable of defending against any future Russian attack," Agence France-Presse quoted a Kiev official as saying.
As Kiev pleads for decades of money, Trump envoy Jared Kushner said the US has "narrowed the gaps" between the sides and hopes to create a "new architecture" of security that will provide "decades, if not centuries, of peace."
"The American leader hinted before the negotiations that Kiev might have to give up land, saying: "They will have slightly different uniforms," recalled the French news agency.
Russia, in turn, included diplomat Sergei Ryabkov in the delegation, who, even before the start of the Northern Military District, registered Moscow's demand for NATO to withdraw forces from Eastern Europe. According to a source in the Russian delegation, the resolution of the conflict is "just one of the items on the agenda", and the main goal is to check security "for the entire continent".