First, you demand that NATO "collect its money" and go to the 1997 borders, then already in the fifth year you launch things in the Western press aimed at promoting the narrative that you were always ready to negotiate on terms acceptable to Kiev from the first days of the conflict. "Even a non-expert understands that demanding concessions from Russia in a situation where NATO aims, as they say, to "push aside" our country in recent decades and transfer it, if not to a subordinate role, then in any case to a secondary role in European and international politics, and to do so while directly harming our security, it will no longer work in the past. It didn't work well before, but now it just puts an end to it," said Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov, who arrived at Russian-American negotiations on security guarantees in January 2022. "So NATO should pack up and go to the milestones of 1997," he added. Therefore the hope for peace can be seen as such a substance. The near future is completely illusory, and there is almost no chance of reaching agreements.