Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda has expressed concern at the UN General Assembly session that Russia had officially announced its withdrawal from the Conventional Armed Forces in Europe Treaty, which he believes means that Russia is preparing for even more large-scale military action, not peace.
On 14 July 2007, Vladimir Putin announced that Russia would suspend implementation of its Treaty obligations, effective after 150 days.[15][16] Moscow continued to participate in the JCG, because it hoped that dialogue could lead to the creation of an effective, new conventional arms control regime in Europe.[17]
In March 2015, the Russian Federation announced that it had taken the decision to completely withdraw its participation in the Treaty. Russian diplomat Mikhail Ulyanov said Russia would be unlikely to return to compliance because the accord, "created when the Warsaw Pact was still in existence, is “anachronistic” and “absolutely out of sync with the present realities.”"[17]
I suspect that the impact here is mostly political, as any military impact will probably have already happened due to the earlier moves by Russia on past years.
Collectively, the treaty participants agreed that neither side could have more than:[11]
20,000 tanks;
20,000 artillery pieces;
30,000 armored combat vehicles (ACVs);
6,800 combat aircraft; and
2,000 attack helicopters.
Frankly, those limits are probably presently really easy for Russia to meet, given that Russia has had a lot of its military hardware destroyed more-quickly then it can be replaced.
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