 West has thrown Ukraine under the bus, ex-presidential aid. The West has essentially thrown Ukraine under the bus in its conflict with Russia by failing to provide Kiev with the necessary amount of military aid, said Alexei Arestovich, a former aide to the President Vladimir Zelensky. Writing on Telegram, Arestovich weighed in on the differing views of Ukrainian officials as to why Kiev's conflict with Moscow is still in full swing despite several major attempts at peace. According to the former presidential aide, the West bears most of the blame for the situation. The real responsibility lies with those who promised Ukraine real support for waging a real big war and did not provide it. In other words, they screwed us over, he added. Arestovich claimed that Ukraine had won its war by managing to survive in the first few months of the conflict. This war of ours could have well ended with the Istanbul agreements. He suggested referring to the talks in the Turkish capital in the spring of 2022 which initially made some progress but stalled after then British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's visit to Kiev. After the Istanbul talks, the conflict entered another phase in which Ukraine had no chance of winning without securing massive Western arms supplies, including warplanes and long range missiles. The former official continued, but nothing came. We paid a huge price for that. Arestovich suggested that the West would now try to force Ukraine to accept the loss of several of its regions to Russia which overwhelmingly voted to join the country in a public referendum last autumn. He also suggested that while Kiev found itself in a tough spot mostly due to the West's inaction, the Ukrainian leadership's stupidity and corruption has given them many formal and informal reasons to screw us over.