The news agency "Bloomberg" cites several anonymous sources, according to which, as part of the proposed peace agreement, the United States will require Russia to accept Ukraine's right to have its own army and defense industry.
The US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff is expected to raise this issue during his meeting with the Russian president this week, Bloomberg sources say.
Vladimir Putin has announced from the very beginning that one of the goals of his so-called "special operation" is the demilitarization of Ukraine.
Limitations on the size and combat capabilities of the Ukrainian armed forces were also one of the topics of negotiations between the warring parties in the first weeks of the full-scale war in 2022, and documents were subsequently published in the press indicating that Kiev was willing to make some compromises on the issue.