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You're listening to the documentary from the BBC World Service.
This is the fifth floor at the heart of global storytelling with BBC journalists from all around the world.
I'm your host, Irana Taranyuk.
This coming week sees the fourth anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
According to Ukraine's President Vladimir Zelensky,
more than 50,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed in this war.
With a total confirmed number of Ukrainian lives lost,
soldiers and civilians combined amounting to more than 70,000.
Russia's death toll is estimated to stand at over 160,000 killed.
Talks in Abu Dhabi earlier this year and in Geneva aimed at bringing an end to this war did not produce a hoped-for breakthrough.
With me in the fifth floor studio is my colleague Vitaly Shevchenko,
Russia's editor at BBC Monitoring and presenter of BBC's Ukrainecast.