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Hello and welcome to News Hour from the BBC World Service.
We're coming to you live from London.
I'm Leila Nathy.
It has become Europe's bloodiest conflict since the Second World War, Russia's war in Ukraine.
Four years ago today, Vladimir Putin launched his full-scale invasion off Russia's neighbour,
a bleak anniversary being marked in ceremonies in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv and across the country.
In his address, President Volodymyr Zelensky struck a defiant tone,
saying President Putin had not achieved his goals and hadn't succeeded in breaking the Ukrainian people.
And he vowed that his country would never yield to Russian aggression.
Dear Ukrainians, today marks exactly four years since Putin started his three-day push to take Kiev.
And that, in fact, says a great deal about our resistance,