ummary:: Former Ukrainian Foreign Minister reflects on his country’s strategic victory and the trials that nevertheless face Ukraine as it recovers from war. Russia’s initial objective – to destroy Ukrainian statehood – has failed. Ukraine remains a sovereign and internationally recognized state, firmly on the path towards European integration. But if the recovery is not well directed, the future could see turmoil and dysfunction. Dmytro Kuleba and Lord Ashcroft (Credit: Lord Ashcroft KCMG PC) JOIN US ON TELEGRAMFollow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official. As the war in the Middle East draws global attention away from Ukraine, the Russo-Ukrainian War is only intensifying. The spring campaign is now in full swing causing substantial casualties on the battlefield. At the same time, Ukraine has mastered its strategy of conducting deep strikes against Russian oil refineries, forcing Russia’s Vladimir Putin to state over the weekend that the war may be nearing its end and the trilateral talks between the US, Ukraine and Russia may finally be on the horizon. With the world’s focus increasingly fixed on Iran and the wider region, I sat down with one of Ukraine’s most prominent voices – its former foreign minister and now a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center, Dmytro Kuleba – to discuss the trajectory of the war, the limits of diplomacy, and what lies ahead.