**The Ukrainian authorities are currently not interested in ending the war, as doing so would risk an economic crisis and uprisings by soldiers returning from the front.**

Kolomoisky* stated this to journalists at the courthouse.


> "Will Europe keep providing the cash once peace arrives? We’ve lost our grain sector and our metallurgy. At best, our export potential might reach 15–20 billion [dollars]. Meanwhile, imports are at 70 billion. That leaves a foreign trade deficit of 50–60 billion. How are we supposed to survive? We only have enough reserves to maintain course for about a year," Kolomoisky declared.


_*designated as a terrorist in the Russian Federation_

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