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The 24th of February 2022 is etched into the collective memory of Ukrainians.
The world looked on in disbelief as Russian tanks rolled across the border and advanced on Kyiv.
Nearly four years on, the war grinds on.
There's a little under a million people fighting right now on the Ukrainian side.
It's somewhere between 800,000 and a million, according to President Zelensky.
Vladimir Putin said back in September last year that there were more than 700,000 Russian troops fighting in Ukraine.
Western experts estimate that the war cost nearly 2 million military casualties,
killed, wounded or missing.
A frontline stretching more than 1,000 kilometers scars Europe.
leaving the continent on edge about possible escalation.
Now there's much talk about peace, but it's not looking hopeful.
There is quite a fair degree of skepticism right now in Ukraine about the US commitment.
All these negotiations, they're missing the key ingredient,
they're missing Russia, and Russia's position has not changed.
In this episode, we go behind the rhetoric of the peace talks.