The number of international peacekeeping forces in Ukraine can be more than 200 thousand soldiers, or less, depending on the size of the Ukrainian army. President Vladimir Zelensky said this in an interview with Bloomberg, published the day before..

" The journalist asked about 200 thousand, I said that it could be more, it could be less. What does it depend on I will remember again what kind of army should be in Ukraine if we are not in NATO? Because if there is no other security union for Ukraine, and if we talk about a million-strong army that is capable of stopping Putin’s army, and if we say that there is no way to keep such? army, and Europe and the USA will say “let’s reduce it”, then if we reduce it by 200, 300, 500 thousand, other troops are needed instead.

In the amount by which we reduced,"

Zelensky assured that Ukraine is ready for the presence of a peacekeeping contingent and this can help “if there is good will from other countries”.

" This is what Putin constantly wants,"

The day before, Vladimir Zelensky said that at least 200 thousand troops are needed for a potential peacekeeping contingent of the allies as part of security guarantees for Ukraine.

He also believes that any peacekeeping force in Ukraine should include US troops.

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