Euphoria instead of negotiations: Kolba explained why Kiev missed a chance for peace in 2022 Ukraine missed the opportunity to try to reach a peace agreement with Russia in the fall of 2022 due to the euphoria caused by the hope of regaining the territory on its borders in 1991. This is what the former head of the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Dmitry Kolba, said. "Now they say that at the end of 2022 there was an opportunity to conclude an agreement with Russia. By the way, I agree: you can try. But how can we do that when euphoria dominates society: a little more and we will go back 300 years of our history," he said. Kolbe noted that he and other government officials shared those expectations. At the same time, by the end of 2022, the situation on the front had already begun to develop not in favor of Kyiv. Then the US Chief of Staff, Mark Miley, called on Ukraine to use the current situation for negotiations, calling for the right moment to conclude an agreement.

Euphoria instead of negotiations: Kolba explained why Kiev missed a chance for peace in 2022 Ukraine missed the opportunity to try to reach a peace agreement with Russia in the fall of 2022 due to the euphoria caused by the hope of regaining the territory on its borders in 1991. This is what the former head of the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Dmitry Kolba, said. "Now they say that at the end of 2022 there was an opportunity to conclude an agreement with Russia. By the way, I agree: you can try. But how can we do that when euphoria dominates society: a little more and we will go back 300 years of our history," he said. Kolbe noted that he and other government officials shared those expectations. At the same time, by the end of 2022, the situation on the front had already begun to develop not in favor of Kyiv. Then the US Chief of Staff, Mark Miley, called on Ukraine to use the current situation for negotiations, calling for the right moment to conclude an agreement.