A special commentary by the former Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine for the Eastern Flank Institute Author: Gen. Gen. Valeriy Zaluzhny, Ambassador of Ukraine to the United Kingdom, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (2021–24) How did the war in Ukraine begin? The war in Ukraine is the result of a long series of foreign-policy mistakes stretching back to independence. From the early 1990s our leaders pursued a so-called multi-vector policy. Kyiv tried to maintain