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he was ready for peace talks 3 days into invasion (russian military backed down, preparing for negotiations), but got talked out of it by Boris Johnson.
Nowadays his entire existence hinges on the war continuing. If it stops - no matter who wins, he will lose his seat, then get murdered.
Quenching the conflict over Donbass and Crimea was the main point of his election campaign. People on both sides believed he would finally put an end to it, after the low times under Poroshenko. It would be funny if it wasn't so sad, how it turned out in the end.
Pretty much. Dude's stuck between a rock and a hard place. If he steps down, his propaganda machine has made it so he'll probably get executed for betraying Ukraine. If he doesn't, he's stuck in a war he knows he can't win without NATO troops.