There was also one significant (in my honest opinion) moment that many people overlooked when talking about Russo-Ukrainian war. There was this guy Сергiй Сивохо, prominent Ukrainian actor born in Donetsk that came into politics with the Zelensky team in 2019. He served as an adviser to secretary of National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, and during that time he proposed initiative to create "National Platform for Peace and Unity" - basically the idea was to establish diplomatic grounds with separatists goverments of LPR and DPR to negotiate some common agreements and have direct talks that does not go through Moscow at all. At first Zelensky did approved this initiative as it could have help to peacefully resolve situation at the time (Ukraine demanded to receive full control over their border in Donbass region before elections in LPR and DPR). But immediately after this plans become known to the public, all the opposition on the right side of spectrum went fully ballistic. Even members of his own party started to vocaly criticize Zelensky and calling him almost pro-russian traitor. So because of that Zelensky immediately backed down and fired Sivoho from his position, never returning to the idea of such negotiations. In my honest opinion it clearly shows that people in power in Ukraine never actually wanted to seek peaceful resolution of situation in Donbass. At least not with the price of actually seeking some compromise that will satisfy everyone, only absolute win was tolerated that cannot be achieved without using force. Don't get me wrong, the war is totally Russia's fault as they did strike first and escalated things into what we have now. But let's not pretend Ukraine actually wanted to prevent such an outcome.
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