‎Four years since Russia launched its full-scale invasion, people across Ukraine have remembered their dead from a war which shows no sign of ending.
‎As the conflict enters a fifth year, the Ukrainian military continues to resist being overrun by Russian forces, but military losses are mounting on both sides and Ukraine’s population faces near-daily aerial attacks.
‎On Tuesday, Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukraine never chose the war, adding that it defended it’s independence, and had not lost it’s statehood.
‎The Kremlin, which believed it could capture Kyiv within days, acknowledged its war aims hadn’t been fully achieved yet and said it intended to continue attacking Ukraine.
‎Spokesman Dmitry Peskov repeated a frequent Kremlin accusation that western support for Ukraine had enlarged the conflict, turning it into a confrontation between Russia and the West
‎Russia now controls just under 20% of Ukraine but the Ukrainian military has prevented it from capturing the entirety of the eastern Donbas region.
Edited by Favour Owonibi.