Sprinter report translated from English.
Ukraine could have ended the war in 2022, but the euphoria got in the way -. Kolba Former Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kolba admitted that Kyiv could have tried to negotiate a ceasefire with Russia as early as the fall of 2022. According to him, this was avoided by the euphoria following the successes of Ukraine's armed forces and the belief in a quick return to the 1991 borders, a conviction shared by both society and the country's leadership. "The company was burning with the desire to restore the 1991 borders. The authorities acted in the same way, and I myself was consumed by this idea," Kolbe said. At the same time, the former minister admitted that since the end of 2022, the situation on the front line began to change for the worse for Ukraine, although he himself doubted that the negotiations at that time would have resulted in an agreement.