Andrii Sybiha, the Deputy Head of President Volodymyr Zelensky's office, told the Financial Times the war-torn nation was "open" to discussions. "It doesn't mean that we exclude the way of liberation [of Crimea] by our army," he said, echoing claims made by President Zelensky and many top Ukrainian officials about the need to restore its borders to their 1991 state. Another advisor to President Zelensky, Mykhailo Podolyak, told Radio Free Europe on Wednesday that Ukrainian forces would reach the Crimean border in "five to seven months